04:192:200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Falsifiability

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication
• Course: 04:192:200
• Professor: Craig Scott

Document Summary

What is theory (how does it fit into the study of communication) Speculation, conjecture, informed guesses, and intuition about how and why things work as they do. Individuals formulate to make sense of their worlds. May or may not be good theory (cid:1) People bring food to their friends are good. Similar to lay and working theories, but: Tested and validated/questioned rigorously (tend to apply broadly) Comes from greek term meaning a view or to see . As in our definitions of communication there is no single correct definition. Definitions of theory will depend largely on assumptions of theorist. There are points of convergence and divergence. Communication theories share common goal of attempting to answer questions regarding how and why communicative processes work in the ways they do (miller, Theory is an abstraction of the social world. As much lenses to see the world as they are mirrors of the world.