SOCI 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nomothetic, Inductive Reasoning
7 Sep 2016
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World of ideas: exists but can"t sense it, consists of explanations, general ideas. Empirical world: physical existence, can be checked and tested, specific ideas. Can reason in either direction wheel of science : science is empirically verifiable. We can test it: not interested in things it can"t prove wrong. People who pray are more likely to go to heaven than those who don"t : can study the impacts of the supernatural, cant test morals or opinion aspects directly, science is deterministic. Think things have cause and effects: cause (x) smoking effect (y) lung cancer. Probabilistic determinism: cause (x) early marriage (teens) effect (y) divorce. Records need to be very detailed: ex: lab noted to be so descriptive that someone can perform the entire experiment with no problems using only your notes. In order to redo the experiment and see if the result is the same: if you didn"t explain all the procedures, it can"t be replicated.
