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the Pittsburgh Survey and the Carnegie Americanization Studies 8. The Concept of the Group in Sociology 9. The Person, Personality, and Status 10. Sociology in Its Relation to Economics and to Politics QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1. What do you understand was Comte's purpose in demanding for sociology a place among the sciences? 2. Are social phenomena susceptible to scientific prevision? Compare with physical phenomena. 3. What is Comte's order of the sciences? What is your explanation for the late appearance of sociology in the series? 4. What do you understand by the term "positive" when applied to the social sciences? 5. Can sociology become positive without becoming experimental? 6. "Natural science emphasizes the abstract, the historian is interested in the concrete." Discuss. 7. How do you distinguish between the historical method and the method of natural science in dealing with the following phenomena: (a) electricity, (b) plants, (c) cattle, (d) cities? 8. Distinguish between history, natural history, and natural science. 9. Is Westermarck's _Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas_ history, natural history, or sociology? Why? 10. "History is past politics, politics is present history." Do you agree? Elaborate your position. 11. What is the value of history to the person? 12. Classify the following formulas of behavior under either (a) natural law (social law in the scientific sense), and (b) moral law (customary sanction, ethical principles), (c) civil law: "birds of a feather flock together"; "thou shalt not kill"; an ordinance against speeding; "honesty is the best policy"; monogamy; imitation tends to spread in geometric ratio; "women first"; the Golden Rule; "walk in the trodden paths"; the federal child-labor statute. 13. Give an illustration of a sociological hypothesis. 14. Of the following statements of fact, which are historical and which sociological? Auguste Comte suffered from myopia. "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." "Science works not at all for nationality or its spirit. It makes entirely for cosmopolitanism." 15. How would you verify each of the foregoing statements? Distinguish between the sociological and historical methods of verification. 16. Is the use of the comparative method that of history or that of natural science? 17. "The social organism: humanity or Leviathan?" What is your reaction to this alternative? W
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