Monday, July 15, 2013

Synthetic school of thought

   The synthetic school of thought wants to make sociology synthesis of the social science. It wants to make sociology a general science and not a pure or special social science. This school of thought defer from the formalistic school of thought. Here the scope of sociology should not be repeated within the study of social relationship or analysis and classification of social relationship.
   Durkhiem, Ginsberg, Hobhouse\ and Sarokin have been the chief exponents of this school. The main arguments of this school life are intimately interrelated hence, the study of one aspect is not sufficient to understand the entire phenomena. So, sociology should study social life as a whole.
     According to Durkhiem sociology has three main divisions of field of enquiry they are:

      1.   Social morphology
      2.   Social physiology
      3.   General sociology
       
      According to some scholars the area or subjects matter of study of sociology should not be limited within a particular aspect of social life as a social science. Sociology studies about different types of social phenomena  including social growth, social interaction, social institution, action and consequences.
      Ginsberg and other advocates of the synthetic school says that the main task of sociology can be categorize into four branches, they are:

  1. Social morphology
  2. Social control
  3. Social process
  4. Social pathology.  
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6 comments:

  1. Jonathan KechJanuary 25, 2017 at 8:14 PM

    is there any criticism for this school of thought

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    1. UnknownJune 13, 2017 at 8:29 AM

      ye s Karl Marx argues that we as sociologists shloul d want to make sociology a complete independent studt and not a synthesis and mix of other school of thought and other branches of social sciencess such as politics or anthropology
      But i strongly believe in Emile Durkeims argument that sociology is naturally a subjct of social science

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    2. UnknownJune 13, 2017 at 8:29 AM

      ye s Karl Marx argues that we as sociologists shloul d want to make sociology a complete independent studt and not a synthesis and mix of other school of thought and other branches of social sciencess such as politics or anthropology
      But i strongly believe in Emile Durkeims argument that sociology is naturally a subjct of social science

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  2. UnknownJune 16, 2018 at 12:12 AM

    Hi! This is a mistake a lot of sociology students do and it reflects very poorly on the student. It's Durkheim and not Durkhiem :p.

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  3. UnknownAugust 13, 2018 at 8:57 AM

    yaa we should agree with these sociologists and do have all faiths about that topic had given by them... so the sociology is naturally a subject of social subject bcoz it also connected us with the social rules,our society with naturally .....

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  4. UnknownSeptember 2, 2018 at 11:09 PM

    Criticism of this school of thought

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