ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Dependent And Independent Variables, Game Theory, Premarital Sex
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Readings theory construction and model building skills: a practical guide for social scientists by j. Social scientists think in five different ways about reality: realism, reality exists independent of any human presence. How do we deal with multiple realities: conceptualization is the same in all humans, but when you apply it to reality, there comes to difference in the application. The reality of the external and internal environment has four characteristics: Reality appears complex: the external world that we experience is complex. Wednesday 6 february 2019: the world at any given instant is different from the world at the very next instant. Reality is unique: the universe at any given instant and everything in it is never the same as the universe at any other instant. Reality is mostly obscure: the vast majority of nature"s secrets still remains mysteriously hidden from direct view. Hardwired : example hardwired: the face of a mother as perceived by a newborn, example learned: chromosome.
