04:192:300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operationalization, Ecological Fallacy, Reductionism
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Epistemology: how we discover and define the truth. Methodology: ways of finding out: a subfield of epistemology, stems from our desire for certainty. Often the driving reason for why we conduct research of all. The role of agreement reality in knowledge. The knowledge we gain from others, often a part of our cultural and communal life. Sometime we have difficulty truly understanding our own experience and results of our experience. Our gut can be mistaken and beholden to stereotypes. Tradition: we"(cid:448)e al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s do(cid:374)e it that (cid:449)a(cid:455) ex: 1. Family rituals: organizational practices and norms, 4. Tradition can make us less likely to seek our better ways of knowing. Traditions can make us resistant to new ideas. Ex: video of girl on talk show, tradition can be used in form of understanding truth and how the world works. Ex: parents and their children, teachers and students, doctors and patients,
