why is sociology considered a science?

Answer 1

It's a social science; it uses research methodologies that are similar to scientific methodologies only it looks at issues of people. Most social sciences came about as separate departments in colleges in the 30s and 40s -- before that they were all lumped together.

Answer 2

Because along with other science subjects it has discrete edges to its discipline and proven and ever expanding methodology.

Sociology is often ridiculed as being too easy and not a real science but soft.

When I got my degree at Liverpool
the Medical students had in their toilets scrawled on the paper towel dispenser

'Sociology degrees just take one!'

I think it is a really difficult Science requiring a different kind of thinking - unlike the other fundamentalist sciences which are often still trapped in Modernism.

however I was interested when a physics student told me that in Physics they love for their experiments to fail because it means finding something new and different and they don't just debate it away but explore it.

I think the interaction between discipline is hugely interesting and benefits us all. Sociology throws a light on all other subjects

Answer 3

Sociology is a science because it uses empirical research.But it goes through social science

Answer 4

because it's a big mystery