RE: The Ground-Level Tasks of Sociology (featuring @juvyjabian as author)
Sociology and Psychology are not sciences even though they are claimed to be. They should be called "social engineering". The experiments performed are not even replicable and the reason is quite simple. Not even the same human is the same at different times of the day. If you do the same experiment in different days you get different results. In other words, they are bullshit.
We have better way to investigate the world. Psychology was the old, expired version. Neurobiology is the new way. Sociology has been replaced by Anthropology. Alchemy has been replaced by chemistry. Astrology by Astronomy.
I know that many people go to college to study these things but really, you are just paying someone to give you a paper that states "congrats, you have a signature for studying your passion".
It doesn't mean anything no matter how one tries to justify it. These fields are not "science". They are a scam.
Indeed, the term "science" has not the same meaning when used for physical or social sciences often lead to false conclusions. I noticed that in the discussions, many people use words with different meanings to prove their theory and convince the interlocutor. There is a lack of intellectual rigor.
Yes, of course, it is Science. It does not undergo experimentation since human behaviors cannot be done that way, but it deals with Scientific methods with facts and data gathered directly from the respondents. Sociology does not deal with anything unscientific.
nop. to do "science" you have to have replicability and falsifiability. psychology and sociology don't have either.
I agree. I use a scientific method but if the results are not"replicability and falsifiability", I can not conclude to a scientific evidence.
That's why Social Science is categorized as the 3rd area of Science. We dont need to similarize Sociology and Psychology to the other fields of Science because they have their own scientific methods?
Sociology and Psychology would not have been developed if the world's questions were already answered by the existing known Science.
Social Sciences lack experimentation since human brains cannot be examined in laboratories, but it does not justify that they're not Science. Sociologists and other social scientists conduct researches in the field. They do not just make their theories out of nowhere. The theories are based on what they see in their physical environment. Sociological theories are bounded with empirical research explaining physical phenomena.
Hi Kyriacos, as always great input. I am wondering, is there courses in Neurobiology at present? So one would study Neurobiology now?
ofcourse. they are a google away