Should Sociologists Study Ethically Accurate?

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People around the world have certain ideas that seems to be so obvious that they defend them in any possible way, sometimes without doubting and testing. Sociologists always question the ideas and conduct a scientific study to make sure that information is accurate. They are not trying to find out what is wrong and what is right, but are looking for the reasons why people act in a specific way. Just like we have learned from the chapter, sociologists do not ask ethical or moral questions and do not make any judgments. Instead, they ask questions that can be tested scientifically. In order to be able to put other ideas to test without assuming that they are truth or not just because they match or mismatch our own ideas, we need to look at the picture from other points …show more content…
We can easily feel the anger, since it is our country, our recourses, and we are here to protect it and fight for it. This amount of information was quite enough for us to realize how unfair the situation is and how it has to be fixed. When we hear about Muslims thinking that Americans are there for the oil only, how reach people are in America while they live in poverty, we already know that information is not very accurate and it is a little more difficult for us to step in their shoes. But it is still easy to understand their motivations and hatred toward Americans by looking at the situation from their perspective. Limited amount of information and misunderstanding are the reasons for them to feel that way. Again, it is easy for us to step in the shoes of the woman who is receiving the flag because her loved one has died in the war. Our family members, relatives, friends have been fighting the war for many years now and many of American citizens got killed. We all know about this situation, and therefore it is not hard for us to step in this woman’s

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