SOAN 2120 Lecture : Monday January 16 Lecture Notes
16 Jan 2012
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Three main activities in social research: tentative explanation (theory, observing (experiment/data collection, testing rival views against data (examination of data) The servants drank different water, which is why they didn t die y snow had them take the pump handle off and the cholera cleared up, it was reported that the water had a bad smell before snow got there. * prof wanted us to look at the scientific method, not the story of snow, just the method that he used. Skepticism: means not taking things for granted snow could have agreed it was bad air, not had the pump handle taken off, and the cholera wouldn t have cleared up. Theory how something is working (theory of natural selection) can call it fact if there is a lot of evidence for, and when evidence against surfaces, the theory goes away. Life experience like john snow, galileo.
