SOCI-100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Kuhn, Scientism, Post-Structuralism
15 Mar 2016
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A)what is truth ? prominence of religious truth in history prominence of scientific truth today education system as a purveyor of truth facts vs truth. We tend to believe what we want to believe is true. Facts and truth are dynamic belief systems: science scientific revolution-- scientism : view that only science can make legitimate knowledge claims about the world study of science is interdisciplinary different viewpoints: scientific knowledge as objective truth. Sociologist study how and what science studies, how it is practised, what influences scientific outcomes. Organized skepticism: scientific claims are subject to scrutiny scientific knowledge as socially constructed. How scientific knowledge emerges and is accepted. How scientific knowledge is affected by social and political forces. Science is always wrong in hindsight impact of social and political forces. Affects the knowledge that is or isn"t produced. George w bush-- no funding for stem cell research. Can control the use of scientific knowledge.
