SOCI 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cluster Sampling, Railways Act 1921, Falsifiability
16 Dec 2017
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Knowledge awareness of something the state of being aware of something. Knowledge comes from education training personal experience media traditions customs. A better way of knowing do research and look for the evidence look for scientific studies done in particular science refers to a system for producing knowledge and knowledge produced from the system just makes sense. We assume that scientific work is supported by evidence. Research is done systematically using methods that allow us to observe a particular phenomenon. Self consciously constantly examining their own work and the work of others. Use of the scientific method the ideas rules techniques and approaches used by the scientific community. Observations of objects or events either natural or produced by experimentation. From these observations a falsifiable hypothesis is developed. If the experiments refute the hypothesis it is rejected and a new one is formulated. Hypotheses that survive are condensed into empirical laws scientific facts truths.
