Posted by Jin woo Nam (남진우)

1. Summary

a. sociological methods

Sociologists use two types of methods to approch society and phenomena. Those methods are systematic and scientific. Quantitative deductive study and Qualitative inductive study is the methods. They are important that they use evidences which are collected by scientific ways. Those evidences are more trustable than others.

b. sociological theory

Theory is important part in sociology. It explains relationship between cause and effects. This is very important role because defining relationship help sociologist to predict phenomena clearly.
Also there are sevrals theory for example Conflict Theory, Structural-Functionalism, Symbolic Interactionism and Role Theory. There are many other theories and one by one has there own traits. 

2. Mention

I learned sociology in high school and i know some theories in documents. however there were more theories that i didn't know  before like intergration theory and role theory. This makes me hve more curiosity and interest in sociology. It's glad to know more about sociology

3.Question

Even i learned sociology before i still can't figure clearly between Quantitative deductive study and Qualitative inductive study. Would you explain clearly?