CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Scientific Method, Organizational Commitment, Paul Feyerabend
Document Summary
The social sciences, methodological legitimacy, and the cjs. Social science (look at chart on ppt online) Social sciences are different from the natural sciences in the object of their study and the nature of the knowledge they seek. Social science is not objective but rigourous. -nature of relationship between the observer and the observed. -human sciences, the observer, every aspect of themselves, is part of the object of study. Empiricism: seeking answers to questions through direct observation. Skepticism: search for disconfirming evidence, continued process of questioning the conclusions drawn (we often call this the principle of falsification) Objectivity: sees the world as it really is, free of prejudice or perspective. Intersubjectivity: attempt to mitigate the effects of one"s biases by building guards against into one"s research model. In other words, there needs to be more proof by other people; not just one. Ethical neutrality: the researcher"s private beliefs or predelictions should not enter into the analysis of the data.
