1. Ignore the social structure role in shaping behaviour →

2. Subjectivity due to the research tools like Participation observation

3. They only build up the reasons based upon the subjective reasoning of Individuals and not look for the other social consequences that helps them to survive. Robert K Merton

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   How the Hopi tribe rain dance was to please the rain god but it also increased the social solidarity.

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4. (Appreciation)Unlike positivist, who discarded human consciousness as not observed and so can't be measured in any objectives ways, they argued that interpretative approach would bring insight for understanding social phenomenon.

5. Critical researchers: to have objective knowledge it is important to look beyond the common sense knowledge of people to uncover the structure of oppression that lie behind everyday life.

6. Phenomenology and ethnomethodology: description only not reflexive to support changes

1. Difficulty achieving generalizability:⇒
2. Susceptibility to researcher bias:⇒
3. Limited ability to establish causality:⇒
4. Reliability of their findings are hard:⇒
5. Lack the comparison with other findings:⇒
6. Subjective findings⇒
7. Studies dependent very much upon the observer interpretation

• Photo from the Blue book
• Criticism of Qualitative Methods

Difference Positivist, Weber, Critical researchers, non positivist and no Objectivity Reflexive Sociology

Matrix of Comparison

• Potential error in casual explanation (These makes the Sociology less scientific or away from nature science) (Why the issue of subjectivity render it less reliable and valid; Loss it's tag of objectivity; Not able to establish that Objective reality exist in Social world)