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    The early development of American sociology was influenced little by Marx and Weber. Early attempts to address social problems came from psychology and sought to establish psychology as the totality of social science. This behaviorist school tried to exclude anything not objectively observable, like values and consciousness. While attempting to establish sociology scientifically by removing bias, the Chicago school and Parsons' functional analysis school introduced new systematic biases unintentionally through their criteria for objectivity. During the mid-1960s, the new left ideology formed in opposition to the Vietnam War and for black power. This view held that society had become fascist and democracy no longer functioned, ruled by a military-industrial complex. Reform through existing institutions was seen as

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    The early development of American sociology was influenced little by Marx and Weber. Early attempts to address social problems came from psychology and sought to establish psychology as the totality of social science. This behaviorist school tried to exclude anything not objectively observable, like values and consciousness. While attempting to establish sociology scientifically by removing bias, the Chicago school and Parsons' functional analysis school introduced new systematic biases unintentionally through their criteria for objectivity. During the mid-1960s, the new left ideology formed in opposition to the Vietnam War and for black power. This view held that society had become fascist and democracy no longer functioned, ruled by a military-industrial complex. Reform through existing institutions was seen as

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    Tredition American Attempts To Solve The Problem of Value

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    The early development of American sociology was influenced little by Marx and Weber. Early attempts to address social problems came from psychology and sought to establish psychology as the totality of social science. This behaviorist school tried to exclude anything not objectively observable, like values and consciousness. While attempting to establish sociology scientifically by removing bias, the Chicago school and Parsons' functional analysis school introduced new systematic biases unintentionally through their criteria for objectivity. During the mid-1960s, the new left ideology formed in opposition to the Vietnam War and for black power. This view held that society had become fascist and democracy no longer functioned, ruled by a military-industrial complex. Reform through existing institutions was seen as

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    TREDITION AMERICAN ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF VALUE

    THE MOST IMPORTANT WRITERS ON OUR TOPIC, MARS AND WEBER HAD LITTLE OR NO INFLUENCE IN THE EARLY STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN SOCIALOGY.THE EARLIEST AMERICAN ATTEMPTS TO GRAPPLE WITH THE PROBLAM ORIGINATED IN PSYCHOLOGY AND CLAIMED PSYCHOLOGY TO BE TO TOTALITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE .THIS SCHOOL , BEHAUIORISM TRIED TO EXCLUDE FRIM ITS RESERCH ANYTHING THAT IS NOT OBSERVABLE OBJECTIVELY PEOPLE"S CONSCIENCE AND AWARNESS , FEELINGS AND VALUS .WHILE THE PROBLEMS OF THE VALUES OF THEIR OBJECTS OF RESERCH ,THEY ALSO MADE THE EXPLANATION OF SOCIAL PHENONENA IMPOSSIBLE. THE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST WERE VERY CONCERNED WITH ATTEMPTS TO RENDER SOCIOLOGY SCIENTIFIC BY ELIMINATING PERSONAL BIAS AND PARTIALITY .TWO ATTEMPTS FOLLOWED THE CLASSICAL CHICAGO SCHOOL AND THE FANCTIONAL ANALYSTS OF THE TAICOTT PARSONS SCHOOL.BOTH OFFERED CRITERIER FOR OBJECTIVITY ,AND BOTH CRITERIA INTEODUCED STRONG SYSTMATIC BIASES IN FAVOR OF THE STATUES PRESUMABLE UNINTENTIONALLY.

    CONTEMPORY REBLLION
    IN THE MIND SIXTIES BETWEEN 1965 AND1967 TO BE PRICESE, THE MOVEMENT AGANIST THE WAR IN VIET-NAMON THE ONE HAND AND FOE BLACK POWER ON THE OTHERE FORMED A DISCERNIBLE NEW LEFT IDEOLOGY .THIS IS A BODY OF SHARPLY NEGATIVE AND DECLAEED NO LONGS A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY BUT ON INSTRUMENT OF C.WRIGHT MILLS MILITARY -INDUSTRIAL CONPLEX AND ACCORDING TOTHE MORE EXTERME SPOKESMEN OF THE MOVEMENT ,A FASCIST GOVENMENT RULING A PROGRESSIVELY ROTTEN SOCIETY . THE HOPE FOR SUCCESSFIL SOCIAL REFOEM ,USING THE EXISTING PARTY -POLITICAL AND GOVENMENT INSTITUTIONS,WAS DECLARD A DANGROUS ILLUSION ALL THISE STILL SUPPORTING THESE INSTITUION WERE LUMPED TO GETHER AS THE ESTABLISHMENT BECOME THE MAJOR TACTIC AND THE SLOGANS OF REVOLUTION BECOME THE NORM

    DIFFICULTIES
    THERE ARECERTAIN FACTORS WHICH ADVESSELY AFFECT OBJECTVITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE .HERE LET US EXAMINE SOME OF THEM . 1. PERSONAL INCLINATION ,BIASES,PREJUDICES etcMAYMAKE THE STUDY LESS OBJECTIVITY .THESE FACTORS NORMALLY ARISE FRIM UESTED INTERESTS , TEMPERAMENTAL WEAKNESSES, SCEPTICAL ATTITUDE WISHFUL THINKING HAND FABITS IF THOUGHT. 2. VALUE-RELATED PROBLEMS EMERGEFROM THE SOCIOL ENVIORMENT WITH IN WHICH RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED .THE ATTITUDE OF A RESEARCHER TOWARDS SOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUE IS INFLUENCED BY THIS VALUES. 3. THE RELATION OF THE RESERCHER WITH THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN THE RESEARCH PROCESS GIVE RISE TO ETHICAL DILEMA ,SUCH INTER-PERSONAL RELATION ARE WITH THOSE WHO SPONSER THE RESEARCH , PEMITACCESS TO SOURCES OF DATA,INVESTIGATORS CONNECTED WITH THE PROJECT AND THE RESEARCH SUBJECTS THEMESELVES 4. SOCIAL PHENOMENA ARE COMPARATIVELY WAY WAST AND COMPLEX TO UNDERSTAND. A PHYSICAL SCIENTST CAN CODUCT CONTROLLED EXPRIMENTS IN HIS LABORATORY. AT THE SAME TIME THE LABORATORY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST IS THE

    ENTORE SOCIETY WHICH IS NOT AMENABLE FOR PRECISE EXPECIMENTS.

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