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Sociology is science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action to arrive at a casual explanation of its course and effects. Sociology seeks to formulate types concepts and generalized uniformities of interested in the causal history, on the other hand, is interested in the causal analysis of particular events, actions or personalities. Action is human behaviour to which the acting individual attaches subjective earning. It can be overt or ...
Today the techniques of empirical investigation and their quantification meets most claims of strict rigour. Comparative and theoretical sociology are as rigorous as the data and the state of the advancing discipline allow. On the whole the methods of the subject do not permit of experiment but only of observation and comparison. In comparison the canons of Mill's Logic are still dominant, in particular the method of concomitant variation. Sociological theories ...