According to Repko, “Sociology views the world as a social reality that includes the range and nature of relationships that exist between people in a given society (Repko, 2012, p. 103) .” They examine social structure, gender, family types, class, ethnic and racial divisions, and social ideology (109). Most social sciences embrace more than one epistemology. The epistemology of sociology is primarily modernist. They share a rationalist epistemology with other social sciences and “the assumption that knowledge is socially constructed and that knowledge… can change the course of history if applied correctly. (Repko, 2012, p. 115).” The weakness of this approach is that human opinion and collected data could have several alternative explanations (119). The hypotheses formulated by sociologists vary widely. The data collected may be influenced by cultural factors, education, learned behaviors, or social biases. They also assume that people are motivated primarily by the desire for social status (Repko, p.