SY203 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wage Labour, Noblesse Oblige, Economic Determinism
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Always continuity/continuation answers may be changing, but questions persist. Theories are interpretations and explanations of social reality talking about knowing/experiencing the world. Most of what we know is a matter of agreement and belief. Tradition: the authority of the past (customs/beliefs) An inherited body of information/understanding; things that everyone knows". Common sense" is culturally, socially, and historically specific. Derives from the status of the transmitter of knowledge. We could test these, but we don"twe accept them because we trust experts. Problems resulting from common sense knowledge evidence. Inaccurate observations: most of our daily observations are casual and semiconscious (we make mistakes) Scientific observation: conscious, deliberate, systematic activity based on empirical and rigorous procedures. Overgeneralization: a few similar events are taken as evidence of a general pattern based on empirical evidence. Selective observation: we select those cases that cit what we want to prove having a bias. Illogical reasoning: neither rational nor based on evidenceex.
