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Understanding social phenomena is required for making progress in sociology. This way, causal explanationcan be applied to identify cause or causes for a social phenomenon."Understanding" method in the process of establishing objectivity, tries to investigate causal motives in order to recognizereal causes of Human's actions, and come to a “causal interpretation”. There have to be some presupposition by which some viewpoints are emphasized and necessarily scrutinized until their position in the research processis clarified. Byunderstanding the”meaning” of actions, social sciences and sociology would be able to come to rules, and therefore, their differentiated from natural sciences.

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