SY280 Lecture Notes - Postpartum Depression, Inverse Relation, List Of Compositions By Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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September 14, 2010: positivist epistemology, august comte. In the past god"s will= what society wants. Religious beliefs replaced by science and objectivity. Wanted society to be explained logically and rationally. Increase the status of soc by making it more like science. Empiricism: tenants of postivism, objective and value free. Research= testing theories laws of social science. Empirical observation not influences by old theories: positivism under attack. Doesn"t acknowledge unequal in society, race, class, gender: empiricism. Guides the collection of data and analysis. Grand theory: marx, feminism, don"t suggest how to collect data, don"t know how to test. Middle range: durkheim on suicide, deduction more scientific, most common approach, in hypothesis concepts to be translated into researchable entities. Induction: theory observations + findings, theory data, explicit hypothesis to confirm or object, quantitative, authority of knowledge= sociological community, scientific, traditional. Process of making sense of the world around you, becomes hypothesis.
