Sociology –as a science of society

Abstract

Science is the systematic knowledge of any subject. In sociological study, sociologists use scientific method , tools and techniques. Sociologyis the science of human relations. It is interested in arriving at generalizations, usually about causes and effect relations. The scientist first formulates hypothesis or guesses as to what will occur under carefully controlled conditions . Common sense is based on direct experience, Auguste Comte16 analyzed history into three epochs. He declared the social phenomena are natural facts , subject to natural laws. Durkheim’s19 study of ‘ Suicide’ may be consider as the first scientific sociological study. Marx and Engels17formulated the conflict theory and conflict is a phase of institutional dynamics. Science advances in a cumulative manner. Science has achieved its present statethrough slow and steady increments of knowledge . This is shown by Kuhn18 by the Paradigm Shift theory. In Present paper. A review over science of society has been presented.