Sociology should be VALUE DRIVEN

Question 1

1 Committed sociologist

Answer 1

Goulder argues that sociology should take sides and openly advocate for values and interests of particular groups . Sociologists shouldn’t be value free in their research and it imposes their values eg Marxist advocates for proletariat and Dobash and Dobash empathising with these participants also allows researchers to gain verstehen.

Question 2

2 - Limitations of experiments

Answer 2

Lab experiments has several weakness and sociologists shouldn’t use this method in sociology as
- verstehen can’t be gained eg milgran why did people continue to give electric shocks

• impossible to control all possible variables in an experiment
• can’t study wider societal issues in an artificial setting eg poverty