SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -Confirmation Bias, Scientific Theory, Social Theory
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Experiential reality = what we know from personal experience and discovery (40) Tradition is one of the ways we know without experiencing, which can be helpful because then we don"t need to start from scratch constructing reality, but it can also hinder human inquiry (42) Some errors in human inquiry are inaccurate observations, over generalizations, selective observations (confirmation bias), and illogical reasoning (43) Premodern view of reality = we see things as they really are (44) Modern view = different people see things in different ways and it"s all a matter of perspective (44) Postmodern view = there is no such thing as objective reality, only our perspectives (44) The two pillars of science are logic and observation, meaning that a scientific understand of the world must make sense and correspond to what we observe (47) Theory = a systematic explanation for the observations that relate to a particular aspect of life (47)
