Talk:Philosophy of social science

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THE BEHAVIOUR AND THE HUMAN BODY as 2 different matters of study to the Philosophies of Sociolgy and the Philosophy of Scientists.

Classifying all the components of human behavior differs greatly to classifying all of the components of the body of the human being.Human behavior has a set definition.The living human body has a set definition. We do not know all of the components of human behaviour.We do know all of the components of the human body...for the human body can be illustrated in diagramitic form as years and years of study have enabled us to verify that we know the entire facts and produce them by diagram etc for others to observe. This process of study and its verifacation has,from its early days, been the hallmark of the methods of the Scientist. A fact is a fact and it can never be disputed.

Sociolgists study human behavior and can work using the same method,by study and verifacation,but their subject matter can be very different to that the Scientist,and it is not so easy for them to classify facts.

The sociologist,for example,may decide to study why there are not enough skilled cooks in the workforce. He can gather data to prove this and produce it in a printout.It may reveal that in North Scotland there is a ratio of 1 to 375- 1 skilled cook to a requirement in the area of 375. If he wants to end his study there,he could,and report to the Government that they should make more training places for cooks available.

In this way Sociology is as factual as Science.

However if he wishes to find out why this situation arose,then he has to study the behaviour of all relevant groups. From school curriculums to colleges to individual choices to obstacles to facilities to teachers and he may have to carry out his study from a very early date,it could be more than 3 decades ago or more. He may prove a great number of facts but if it transpired to amount to "Individual unwillingness to learn to cook" then analysing the reasons for it are not viable.He will never be able to analyse "individual unwillingness" So in this part of his study he has got an entirley different subject matter than the Scientist ..he cannot gather data and verify it. He can only give his opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ANGELACMCMAHON (talk • contribs) 09:39, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]