SOCA01H3 Lecture 3: SOCA01 Week 3 (Data Research).docx
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Villegas: today, how do we develop knowledge about the everyday world, research, to better understand the world. Can lead to policy decisions, debunking of myth, and challenging of paradigms. Can be ignored by policy makers if it doesn"t fit their political agenda (ex: global warming, and social inequities: experience, helps determine how we perceive reality, including patterns we can or can"t see, levels of experience. Tools are developed that allow us to understand phenomena once considered unimaginable. Deductions are made according to data available. Based on observation & collection of data: not all knowledge is observable. Can be limited and not definite: science is limited to the tools and imagination of the people engaging in research. Elitists: who has knowledge and who doesn"t, based on very narrow perspective (humanistic) Villegas: exception to the rule/qualification unwillingness to challenge long-held paradigms and placing exceptions as an anomaly rather than a rule. Must be answerable based on collectable data.
