Different kinds of Environment affecting Society

Environment affecting society

There are physical, biological and social environment which affect the society we are living in. therefore knowing those environment could be beneficial. We will be discussing those sequentially

Physical Environment affecting Society

Whether you are living in the plains area, hills area or in desert area, certainly affect your lifestyle. If you live in hill area, you will be leading a complete different lifestyle compared to the people living in plain area. Population in plain area is visibly much greater than the hill area. Economy is also better in plain area along with better communication ways. In the plain area, you can see democratic political system like in Bangladesh but on the other hand mainly autocrat system prevails in the hill area where people are bound to follow their ruler’s orders. In the plain areas, most of the times we see homogeneous religion but on the other hand we see different religions prevail in the hill areas.     

Steps in Sociological research

Any research can be two types, one is quantitative and other is qualitative. In quantitative research you can do survey or census or even both. As a qualitative research you got many options in hand, you can go for case study, observation, FGD (Focus Group Discussion) and so on. Now we will talk a little bit about steps in sociological research below-

At the very beginning of the research you have to define the specific problem accurately. After defining the problem reviewing previous researches could be an effective tool. Then you can form a hypothesis or if you want you can make several hypotheses. Hypothesis is done; now decide what will be the research design. Next step would be determining a particular sample and collecting relevant information about that sample. Now that you have collected relevant data, your very next step should be analyzing those data systematically and then making conclusion. And of course last step is preparing your report.     

Scientific Method

Scientific Method

Like the social science, Sociologists also use scientific method to extract necessary information about the Society. Scientific method is a structured process through which scientific knowledge is formed and this method includes thorough observation and obviously verification. Now we will see the steps of scientific method used in Sociology or even in any field discussed below-

·         First you have to select a problem which is to be resolved

·       After choosing the problem, 2^nd step would be making thorough observation and gathering related data

·       After successfully collecting data, a researcher has to make the classification of the data as a next step in the scientific method.

·         Creating an effective hypothesis is the next step

·  After having done with all the above steps, a researcher has to make generalization of the whole research

·         As a last step of scientific method one will be doing the verification process of the findings.

There above mentioned steps are inevitable for a scientific method which also can be used in any psychology research as well.

Is sociology a science?

Now that we have known what science is, we are going to discuss whether sociology is a science or not. Sociology is concerned with scientific method and actually it’s based on scientific method. It is not only ideas but also mostly factual. The facts revealed by sociology can be regarded as used as universal without any hesitation. The principles of sociology can be verifiable at any time regardless of place as well and the result should    hold true for every case. Like science, Sociologists also discuss about the cause-effect relationship regarding any social terms in the culture. Sociologist can make prediction through a thorough observation. So far whatever we have mentioned are the criteria for being science and we have seen all of the criteria are visible in sociology. So therefore under the circumstances it is clearly can be stated that sociology is a science and this is certainly inevitable to know.