CMN 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ernest Rutherford, W. I. Thomas, Florian Znaniecki

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3102
• Professor: Philippe Rousseau

Document Summary

Quantitative methods for communication: statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write (h. g. Physical science: the study of the objective aspects of nature (biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, etc. ) Social science: a groups of fields that set out to study how humans live and interact (anthropology, communications, cultural studies, economics, education, history etc. ) Freud): hippocrates of cos, first researcher to classify his patients by temperament, may have initiated personality theories that drive modern social science, science is an important part of understanding the world in both the physical and humanistic sense. There are in fact, two things: science, and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance : plato, often wrote on both physical and social scientific topics and occasionally even combined both. 1918- social scientific research flourished after world war 1: 1918: william isaac thomas and florian znaniecki defined social.