The Phylum Mollusca All mollusks are classified under the phylum Mollusca. There are six classes of mollusks: 1. Class Cephalopoda This class includes the highly intellegent, many-armed orders of mollusks.
In sum, both applied and basic science is needed in any discipline. Basic sociology focuses on testing or developing theory directly. Applied sociology uses theory as a tool to solve a client-centered problem. In basic sociology, theory is often the end. In applied sociology, theory is a means to an end. Applied sociology is not atheoretical, rather, theory plays a different role in applied sociology than it does in basic sociology.
Like rational choice theory, conflict theory, or functionalism, pure sociology is a sociological paradigm â a strategy for explaining human behavior.Developed by Donald Black as an alternative to individualistic and social-psychological theories, pure sociology was initially used to explain variation in legal behavior.ure sociology, then, can be distinguished from other sociological paradigms by what is absent from it: psychology, teleology, and even people as such. Pure sociology's focus on a unique social reality may sound Durkheimian, but Black views the approach as more Durkheimian than Durkheim..