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Interpretivists:
- Subjective, qualitative, (Weber's concept) - verhsten, micro.
- Do not believe that sociology should model itself on the natural sciences.
- No facts waiting to be discovered.
- True understanding only comes from interpretation of the meanings and motives of those involved.
- Phenomenology = how meanings are socially constructed.
- Natural sciences = study matter - no consciousness. Behaviour can be explained by external factors. Matter has no choice about its behaviour.
- Sociology = study people - do have consciousness. People make sense of and construct their world by attaching meanings to it. Actions are understood in terms of these meanings - internal to people's consciousness.
EVAL- lack of reliability, misinterpretation, bias - unrepresentative. Postivists would criticise by saying Interactionists view = inaccurate.

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Kuhn: 
-Paradigms = unified set of assumptions e.g. gravity.
- Shared by members of a scientific community .
- Provides a basic framework of assumptions, principles and methods.
- Science cannot exist without a shared paradigm.
- Scientists find anomalies in their research - lose faith in the paradigm.
- Develop rival paradigms in the crisis - starts a scientific revolution.
- Eventually one paradigm does win and becomes accepted.
- Scientific community is not open - fairly conformist.
- Sociology = pre-paradigmatic - not scientific.
- No shared paradigm - not desirable or possible.
- Sociology has no paradigms.
EVAL- Alternative view - separate paradigms.]]> 2017-06-06 09:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/katiewoodhead123/r0pphqyofijk/wish/175349378