SOAN 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ben Goldacre, Auguste Comte, Verstehen
18 Jan 2018
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Idea literature review design data collection analysis dissemination. New mothers are better than delivery-room doctors to provide a who are often ignored or deemed as uninformed society anything now. It is a flexible term. lived experience of giving birth. Ben goldacre: battling bad science: use of placebo in medical trials, cannot make a decision without all the information. Epistemology = how we attain knowledge and understanding. Social (cid:494)laws(cid:495) exist, behavior is calculable (to the way we do things) We need to find them and how to research them. Replication = same findings across multiple studies illustrate these: interpretive laws, and (cid:494)truth(cid:495) (cid:498)calvinism(cid:499) Humans are different than other studied things. Good and hard work for sake of doing work to please god. Reality = interactions, language are symbolic, lived experiences: conflict theory. Human behavior is based on inequality and an unbalanced distribution of power. You are hoping for change in some sort. Social organization is based on social class.
