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Unit-3: Basic Concepts : Fact, Concept, Theory and Hypothesis

Marton says that laws are made from concepts. Concept in themselves are not the laws. When various note
concepts are put together, they form hypothesis and theories , which in turn when studied and analyzed
and proven, give birth to any law or form a law.
it can be said the pre-situations, incidents are summarized on the basis experiences, then it is present
by word or words in short, giving rise to any concepts.

Notes We differentiate and describe the various types of rounds on the basis of their
qualities with help of concepts, thus we can say that concepts help in presentation
or expression.

in the researches, concept help a lot in understanding the problems and situations.
Concepts play a vital role in formation of any law. each and every word of concept expresses a particular
aspect of the social world which is of great importance from the view point of specific goals.
Concepts create a specific language of the study through which circulation or rotation is possible.
researchers using any concept understand the meaning of that concept in exactly the way it must
be understood.
Goode and Haute has written in this reference that , any concept which is related to science should
be very specific in meaning and should be fit to send in specific meaning. They should not be unclear
or doubtful at any cost. in fact they should be created in such a way that even the minutest detail of
their formation should be clear and understood.
Actually the importance and success of any concept depends on its clarity of the meaning and use.
from the point of view of law formation, it is very important that the concept should be unfactual
concept in base), experience based concept laws are formed and specific experienced situations may
be well explained and discussed.
The importance of concepts is further clarified in Goode and haute’s work. The process of developing
the concept is helpful in collecting the experience oriented knowledge and drawing conclusions. to
understand the qualities of a particular set or class of facts, to study them, to regularize and classify
them is only possible on the basis of concepts only. thus, concepts are of great help in our creating
new thoughts.
A researcher, who collects new facts, soon experiences that with clarifying the actual meaning of the
facts, their complete development is not possible. And this only possible by developing the concepts
properly. Thus we can say that concepts are a part of scientific methods only and without their proper
and correct use, the sociological research cannot be given an objective form. in the end, we can conclude
in Morten’s words that our observation and collected facts may be very important and useful, But in
the absence of concepts no research remains important and becomes valueless.

self assessment
fill in the blanks:
1. The ultimate aim of scientific researches is to formulate __________ .
2. the meaning of family, marriage, relatives etc., is different in __________ than the common
meaning.
3. the process of developing the concept is helpful in collecting the ________________knowledge
and drawing conclusions.

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