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It was to be patterned after the natural sciences, not only in itsempirical methods and epistemological underpinnings, but also in thefunctions it would serve for mankind. Far from being of theoreticalinterest alone, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, mustultimately be of concrete benefit to man and play a major part in theamelioration of the human condition.

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Did he believe that the task of sociology was to uncover fundamental laws, just as the natural sciences do?

Answer 1

Without reading too much outside of this, the "epistemological underpinnings" of natural sciences include an ever present belief that there are fundamental laws in the universe.  A deep rift in social sciences is the idea that fundamental laws are a chimera in that much social behavior is based on social constructions of reality - meaning they don't really exist in the same way that physical concepts do in the natural world.

  For this context, yes, he is proposing that the sociology, since it is a sub field of the social sciences, is definitely charged with uncovering fundamental laws as natural sciences do.