COMM 3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Axiology, Reductionism, Scientific Method

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 3002
• Professor: Andre Turcotte

Document Summary

Stating a knowledge claim means that researchers start a project with certain assumptions. Researchers make claims about what is knowledge (ontology); how we go about it (epistemology); what values go into it (axiology); how we write about it (rhetoric); the processes for studying it (methodology) There is uncertainty about what we claim; we do admit that from the starting point of our knowledge claim is a certain assumption. Methodology is only one dimension of being able to make knowledge. As a society we do make claims about what is knowledge, and how we. You aim to address a problem outside of this set of values that you have, This, and our perceptions based on who we are, translates into the ways claims know about it but it is very difficult we conduct research. As researchers we bring something to the table there"s baggage in what we"re looking for and what we do.