CS235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grounded Theory, Cockfight, Dont
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Epistemology: logic of which we come to know (how) Methodology: organizing research so we can connect epistemology and ontology. Naturalism and positivism each have a different stance of the world, they favour. Social sciences should be modeled after or organized the same as the natural sciences. In terms of how they construct knowledge and do research: emphasis on empirical observation organized to falsify theoretical hypothesis. His epistemological approach became known as a falsificationist: one can never verify the truth, can only disprove the hypothesis. Truth claims (not truths just claim) are based upon disproving hypotheses and theories rather than proving them (verificationist: validating hypotheses. From naturalist point of view can never claim something because there are always alternative hypotheses. Epistemologically, social sciences at all costs pursue the status of objectivity: look at the world as if it were an object and to understand you must abandon your stance or position.
