SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Scientism
23 Jan 2018
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Prominence of religious truth in history: dogmatic. Prominence of scienti c truth today: evidence based. Education system as a purveyor of truth . * facts are enemies of truth - cervantes. * i. e we tend to believe what we believe is true. *claims about the nature of reality + ethical and moral claims + technologies. *view that only science can make legitimate claims about the world. Scienti c knowledge as: objective truth, socially constructed (doesnt mean made up) A) scienti c knowledge as objective of truth. What in uences scienti c outcomes, etc. (there is no standard scienti c outcome) * robert merton -> normative structure of science. Communism (how many studies actually reach the general public, aka privatizing knowledge for pro t) Disinterestedness: no scientist does not have a bias. How scienti c knowledge: emerges and is accepted, is e ected by social and political forces, is impacted by funding structures (pharmacy industry)
