STUDENT INDEX NUMBER: 10393331 GROUP A Science is a methodical approach to studying the natural world. Science asks basic questions, such as how does the world work? How did the world come to be? What was the world like in the past, what is it like now, and what will it be like in the future? Most often than not these questions are answered using observation, testing, and interpretation through logic. A discipline refers to a branch of knowledge or a field of study. Thus a scientific discipline can be termed as any division of knowledge that seeks to understand a basic truth through explanations that can be inferred from confirmable data only, and observations and experiments that can be reproducible and verifiable by other individuals. In our quest to understanding what makes a discipline scientific, we consider the notion of “Content”. Content is referred to as the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned. In other words, it is the subject matter of a body of knowledge or field of study. Scientific disciplines are usually classified into two: the Physical Sciences and the Social Sciences. In this light we shall employ a close –up on the framework of natural and social sciences to further this course. Scholars like Weber (1946) argued that, the method of science, whether its subject matter be things or men, always proceeds by abstraction and generalization. Against the positivists, he took the stand that man, in contrast to things, could be understood not only in external manifestations that is, in behaviour, but also in the underlying motivations. And against both these approaches Weber emphasized the value- bound problem choices of the investigator and the value-neutral methods of social research. According to Weber, differences between the natural sciences and the social sciences arise from differences in the cognitive intentions of the investigator, not from the alleged inapplicability of scientific and generalizing methods to the subject matter of human action. What distinguishes the natural and social sciences is not an inherent difference in methods of investigation, but rather the differing interests and aims of the scientist. The natural scientist is primarily interested in those aspects of natural events that can be formulated in terms of abstract laws. While the social scientist may wish to search for such lawful abstract generalizations in human behaviour, he is also interested in particular qualities of human actors and in the meaning they ascribe to their actions. So then, how validly can the notion of content be used as a yardstick to determining how scientific a discipline can be? Natural science, the cornerstone for the proliferation of