CRIM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tarotology, Reality Television, Participant Observation
20 Feb 2017
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Humans rely on various sources of knowledge: Voices of authority: religious elites, royalty, professionals, reality television stars. Trust the voice of the experts can sometimes be misleading. Mystics: astrologists, tarot card readers, mediums, psychics. 17th century rationalists: building knowledge that we believe can be known and has regular, predictable patterns in the world. 17th century rationalism became positivism, which then became the scientific method. Advent of logic of inquiry and the scientific (cid:373)ethod as a (cid:858)(cid:396)e(cid:272)ipe(cid:859) fo(cid:396) doi(cid:374)g (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h, fi(cid:374)di(cid:374)g k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge that al(cid:396)ead(cid:455) e(cid:454)ists. Applies rules of natural world to the social world. Seeks to overcome human bias via rigid, values-free inquiry predicated on the scientific method. But s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) i(cid:374)(cid:395)ui(cid:396)(cid:455) is falli(cid:271)le to (cid:271)ias, illogi(cid:272)al belief, religious belief, echo chamber knowledge gathering, post-factual, and alternate-fact world views. The need to prove that the research has value in the society. Empirical research: knowledge produced based on experience or observation. Must meet specific criteria for experiential or agreement reality to be accepted.
