SSCI 2900U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Content Analysis, Scientific Community, Qualitative Research
5 Dec 2017
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Week 1- chapter 1 - doing social research. Sources of knowledge: authority, tradition, common sense, personal experience, media myth, scientific. Authority: knowledge acquired from parents, teachers and experts as well as books, television and other media, limits to authority: Blood lining- doctors used to drain blood from patients with diseases thinking it will heal them. Phrenology- (cid:272)a(cid:374) predi(cid:272)t so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e(cid:859)s (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)alit(cid:455) (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) the size of (cid:455)our head. Links between 2nd hand smoke and cancer were coming out, 2nd hand smoke was being banned in the u. s. around this time. Book was published about 2nd hand smoke and cancer not linking- tobacco industry behind it. Tradition: special case of authority: authority of the past. Common sense: knowing things from our own everyday reasoning or common sense, o(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es our reaso(cid:374)i(cid:374)g is fault(cid:455) a(cid:374)d thi(cid:374)gs (cid:449)e assu(cid:373)e (cid:862)(cid:373)ake se(cid:374)se(cid:863) are (cid:374)ot supported by facts, ex.
