ANTH 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Certificate Authority, Knowledge Mobilization, Research
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Selecting a problem- what is the research objective (narrow and clarify) Define the variables and ways to measure them. If a state of knowledge is inadequate in a particular area funding bodies (name some) ask for proposals to conduct research and select the most relevant & deserving of support. What are the factors influencing authoritative knowledge. We must evaluate the opinion of authorities. We need to review their research process. We need to study our research process. Honesty & accuracy (strive for objectivity) increases reliability. Think of how to move this global question into researchable questions. Understand what peace is, and understand what the community thinks. 2 basic properties: they are limited in scope, narrowed in focus, confined to certain times, places & sets of conditions. External reality awaits our discovery through approximations to the truth. All knowledge of fact is based on the positive data of experience. How reality is constructed uniquely by each person.
