socialogy,anthropology,evolutionary psychology ,social pyschology as a science?

Question

i am studying in syba and i want some topics to be briefly explained .

Answer 1

sociology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, social pyschology are non-empirical sciences, meaning they can not be measured in physical amounts, like one teaspoon or three kilograms..

they are human sciences, anthropology and evolutionary psychology are, by nature of their study, closer to "hard science" or physical sciences because it bridges the gap surrounding other sciences like human biology, psychology, and study of social behaviour,

if you have more questions, try to be a little more specific next time..


hope i helped you out

Answer 2

There is, and probably will be for a long time, great debate about whether or not the social sciences can really be considered science.

Obviously, most social scientists think so, and most "hard" scientists do not.

However, if you want a bigger-picture look, read "Conscilience: The Unity of Knowledge" by Edward O. Wilson, a well-known author and biologist. It's an amazing book, and will help you reach an understanding of the possibilities for human knowledge and science. It may not be the same one he comes to.

Of course, if you're a student, you don't have time to read books!

Answer 3

Notice that non of the two first answers says that these are non-sciences (which i believe was your bottom line), but they disagree on what kind of sciences they are.
I also find it hard to accept the "non-empirical" condition, but for different reasons than those expressed by "8kandcat". "DM" says it all depends on the fact that [the results obtained by] this kind of sciences can not be measured in physical amounts. 8kandcat is correct in stating that answers [results] can be quantifiable, in different ways, namely statistical. But they seem to agree in the fact that "no numbers no empiricism", so DM places these sciences as "human sciences" (I guess that would mean theoretical sciences) and "8kandcat" as social sciences defined as empirical BECAUSE there are numbers involved.
AS far as I know, empiricism depends on observation and experimentation not strictly in quantification. So you have sciences like biology which do both, observation and experimentation while others like astronomy depend solely on observation just as sociology, anthropology and psychology usually do. The difference is the former cannot experiment because almost no manipulation is possible, while in the rest experiments can be undertaken, but there are ethical restrictions to them.
So yes, they are sciences, they are social sciences, and they are empirical because they deal with real material beings, not immaterial ones.

Answer 4

I agree that the question is not specific. However I completely disagree that these social sciences are not quantifiable. I know nothing about sociology, but anthropology, ev psych and social psych are all empirical sciences. They get numbers and answers and can run statistics. The answers are not in teaspoons, they are in hormone concentrations, demography rates and focal follow data points, to name only a few ways to measure things in these fields.

Answer 5

i'm no longer attentive to the lecturers your college has in ideas. besides the undeniable fact that do not sink the boat yet! the concern of sciences are specially to grant you an concept of being the explorer even as searching for solutions and there will be plenty even as psychology "comes round the nook!" Sociology has a similar format on condition that without sociology there will be no psychology, so we merely positioned those interior an same bucket and integrate-em up!