SOWK 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: List Of Fables Characters, Professional Ethics, Pure Instinct
6 Feb 2016
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Research consumer: uses research findings to help improve your practice. Creator and disseminator of knowledge: creator: does research, disseminator: gets research out to population, contributing your partnership to help a cause (working together) Authority: expert knowledge so: the first way you know something is that someone in an authority position told you. Experience: cons: very subjective, you might have had a bad experience(pros: it"s easy for you to do things: experience in one rea, for example, can blind you to the issues in another. Intuitive judgement may lead to superstitions behaviour and complacency. Intuitive judgements may vary dramatically from person to person. Definition: systems of knowledge that guide how we think and act. 3 types of paradigms: pre-positivism, roman empire to the renaissance, catholic church was chief source of knowledge: they directed the way everyone thought in this time, key assumption: passive observation of natural phenomena, example: galileo. People basically believed whatever he said: he used authority and tradition ii.
