Similarities between social and physical sciences

Link: http://www.helium.com/items/1289290-social-sciences-science-comparison

Pauls' wheel of reasoning:

Question of issue: Similarities between two differing aspects of science -- social and physical science

Purpose: To exemplify how different disciplines of sciences such as arts and geography can in fact be similar

Evidence: 1) "Now the question is, "Are the social sciences really science?" Before we can answer this question, we must determine our criterion. That is, what constitutes a "real" science"

2) "Common responses would suggest that any science must include adjectives such as "empirical," "theoretical," "predicting," "methodic," and "objective" among others."

3) "Are the social sciences really science? Yes, and then some. Social scientists have taken science and developed it and expanded it in a way that uses basic principles of science to help us learn about human behavior"

Assumptions: Believes that all humans want to understand each other, through understanding others' behaviours and knowing each other.

POV: That social science should also be considered to be a real science, and that due to the defintion of science being one that has empirical evidence that social science is not considered to be science, he feels that it is a absolutely ridiculous.

Concepts: about the various other discipline of science, taking social and physical science into consideration.

Implications: if we do not take social science seriously, it would be difficult for us to understand social science

Inferences: The tone is one of utmost dignity and does not feel that social science should be taken lightly.

Summary:

Science itself has many different levels to it, having disciplines of science brings about sub disciplines of it. However there are two overarching aspects, which is social and physical sciences, the invisible and the empirical respectively. It is hard to accept social sciences because they do not have any empirical evidence, and instead based on examples and case studies of various countries. Other than these two aspects, the author also questions the purpose of science as a whole, which is whether science is used to provide information to the people for the betterment of lives or is the purpose of science used to discount all information that does not fit into the criteria of science which is to be empirical and have evidence for the claim made. The author also states that social science is qualitative while physical science is quantitative research. The author also points out difference between social and physical, one asking questions and the other doing experiments.