COMM 2P15- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 46 pages long!)
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Different visual perspective generates different sets of data about the same phenomena. Set of assumptions about knowledge and research that shapes how researches look at problems. Value-free: personal options of the researcher should not affect the outcome of the research. We use language to describe and comprehend the world. Language is composed of symbols (i. e. , letters, numbers figures) There symbols beat no direct relationship to the world; they are arbitrary even when shared by many people. (ex: chair - french word for chair russian word for chair) If we comprehend it only through sensations and symbols, then we have no direct k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge of the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld a(cid:374)d (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot (cid:272)lai(cid:373) to know absolute truths. To evaluate data from a neutral perspective, without bias or preconceived notions: research excludes pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)al i(cid:374)(cid:272)li(cid:374)atio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d o(cid:271)se(cid:396)(cid:448)es the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld as it (cid:862)(cid:396)eally is(cid:863) or as it appears to all people.