SOCY 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Institute Of Historical Research, Content Analysis
22 Sep 2014
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Social research: a process in which researcher combines a set of principles, outlooks, and ideas with a collection of specific practices, techniques, and strategies to produce knowledge. Authority - people who have gained a lot of knowledge. Need to be worried that they arent all accurate and that they dont misuse their authority 2. Tradition - accepting things being true because its the way its been, tradition becomes distorted 3. Common sense - allows logical fallacies to become accepted, contains contradictory ideas 4. Personalexperience- if something happens to you, you accept it as being true. There are four errors of personal experience 1. Overgeneralization: an error that people make when using personal experience as an alternative to science when gathering knowledge 2. Selective observation: the tendency to take notice of certain people or events based on past experience or attitudes 3. Premature closure: using personal experience as an alternative to science for acquiring knowledge.
