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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Define science.
- Describe what the phrase “sociology is a social science” means.
- Describe the specific considerations of which social scientists should be aware.
In "How Do We Know What We Know?", we considered a variety of ways of knowing and the philosophy of knowing. But this is a sociology text rather than a philosophy text. And sociology is a science, or more specifically a social science. In this section, we’ll take a closer look at the science of sociology and some specific considerations of which sociological researchers must be aware.
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