SOC200H1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Shark Attack, Michel Chossudovsky, Qualitative Research
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Ways of knowing: tradition, authority/ personal inquiry & experience. Tradition and authority can bot assist and hinder human inquiry. Errors in inquiry: inaccurate observation/overgeneralization/selective observation/illogical reasoning (gambler"s fallacy. How to against these errors: systematic & conscious observation, replication (repetition of research study in order to confirm) Agreement reality: what is known through the culture we share. Experiential reality: what is known through personal experience and discovery. Scientific understanding must be logical (make sense) and empirical support (correspond to what we observe) Epistemology is science if knowing, methodology (subfield of epistemology) called science of finding out. Premodern view: guided most human history, saw things as they really were,not see as assumption. Modern view: accepts diversity as legitimate,accept different people have different belief. Postmodern view: all real are the images we get through our point of view, nothing out there, it is all in here.
