Theories and Methods

• What did classical sociologists want to do?

  Wanted to explain the whole of society
• What did modern sociologist want to do?

  Explain smaller aspects of society instead the whole
• What is positivism?

  Studying human behaviour in the same way we study natural science
• What did positivists assume?

  Methods for natural sciences can be applied to human behaviours

  They can identify and observe phenomena and quantify it into numbers