GS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Photovoice, Discourse Analysis, Age Of Enlightenment
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Population density; number of people killed; the amount of fuel used per household. Surveys contain concepts and categories of the researcher rather than the people being studied. Allows to get at what, why and how people act and think in certains ways. The philosophy of how we come to know. What we can be said to know; Its reliability, what constitutes justification for holding a belief and thereby deeming that belief to be knowledge. Knowledge is based on memory experience you are currently having. If you decide to trust your memory then you are deciding to believe what your memory is telling you. In effect your knowledge about yesterday"s dinner is based on a belief you choose to have about the accuracy of your present memory. You have some confidence in the basis of that knowledge. We have to determine what methods will count as knowledge for ourselves and others.
