Please add to the attached document that I have already started.
Instructions: Please
answer both questions. Each question
should be between 3 to 4 pages, typed, double-spaced, times 12-font. You may use one “works cited” or
“bibliography” for both essays.
The title page and “works cited” (or bibliography) page are not
part of the 3 to 4 pages of content per question. Please upload one document (if possible) in
doc., docx. or pdf form. Make sure you
have a break between the two essays and indicate when one essay ends and the
other begins.
Question #1). What makes sociology a science? Explain how sociological inquiry and
analysis are a scientific process. What
scientific traditions are sociological analysis part of?
Incorporate into your essay, the following concepts: empiricism, positivism, structural
functionalism, social conflict theory, symbolic interaction, epistemology,
methodology, inquiry, social patterns, hypothesis, research steps, variables,
idiographic and nomothetic explanations, inductive and deductive approaches,
quantitative and qualitative methods, levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal,
interval, ratio), conceptualization, and operationalization.
Question #2). What
is the sociological imagination? Apply
the sociological imagination to your own life.
How does understanding and applying the sociological imagination to your
own life circumstances and social location provide you with a more scientifically
oriented understanding of how your place in the world is examined?
Incorporate into your essay, the following concepts: ways of knowing, structural functionalism,
social conflict theory, symbolic interaction, epistemology, methodology,
inquiry, stereotypes, social patterns, dialectics, inductive and deductive
approaches, conceptualization, and
operationalization.