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Sociology is a science. In fact, a sociologist has to have more personally challenging scientific standards than the more popularly-known sciences such as physics and chemistry, because it is much more challenging to deal with bias and subjectivity. A chemist doesn't have to question his unconscious motives while sealing his samples, and he will often see organisms growing in them if he doesn't seal them properly; a sociologist has to question his own biases and unconscious movements at every moment, and if he fails, it's very difficult to tell just from looking at the study results.Sociology is a science, and science is a struggle. Sociologists are often envious of how much less challenging it is to be objective in the other scientific fields.In order to determine whether or not sociology can be accepted as a true science it is useful to make comparisons between the studies performed by both sociologists and natural scientists on their subjects of society and the natural world respectively. At its most fundamental level, the philosophy behind knowledge, reality and being must also be scrutinized as the knowledge which is so eagerly pursued by scientists is only relevant under certain philosophical conditions. Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of medical organizations and institutions; the production of knowledge and selection of methods, the actions and interactions of healthcare professionals, and the social or