Why is the questions of a scientific method particularly important in sociology ?

(i) Sociology is called a Social Science. Therefore scientific method of study is very special or important in sociology.

(ii) More than any other subject or discipline related with social science. Sociology deals with things that are already familiar to most people. All of us live in society, and we already know lot about the subject matter of sociology (several group, institution, norms, relationship and so on through over own experience.

(iii) Sociology is called social science and the scholar of this discipline - sociologist are called social scientist. As with all scientific discipline the crucial element here is method or the procedure through which knowledge is gathered. For in the final analysis, socilogist can claim to be different from by persons not because of how much they know or what they know, but because of how they acquire their knowledge. This is one reason for the special importance of scientific method in sociology.

(iv) Scholar of sociology are deeply interested in the linvd experience of people. For instance when study social phenomena like friendship or dharm or bargaining in market, the sociologist wants to know only what is observable by the bystander, but also the opinion and feelings of people involved for this sociology requires scientific method.

(v) Socilogist make efforts to adopt the point of view of the people this study to see the used

through their eyes. What does friendship means to people in different culture. What does a religious people in different culture. What does a religious people think he/she is doing when performing a particular ritual ? The Answer to questions are part of the lined experience of actors involved, and they are great interest to sociology.

(vi) Generally sociologist try to produre knowledge that can claim to be scientific. A Science is expected to be objective, to produce unbioas knowledge based solely on facts. But this is much harder to do in social sciences than in the natural sciences.

(vii) Social Scientist study the world in which they themselves live - the social world of human relation. This creates a special problems for objectivity in a social science like sociology.