SOCI 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Governmentality, Medieval Commune, Keynesian Economics
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Argues constant paradigm shifts when assumptions of 1 paradigm, framework, can no longer be used to explain ones findings: critical realism: the meaning of the life world is not accessible thru direct observations. > general surveys such as interviews, telephone + focus groups, each method has strengths and weaknesses: other forms: participation observation and content analysis. Michael walizner + paul wienir, ways of knowing: Revelation-> considered sacred + absolute, total & complete; long lasting; source: individual + personal experience; stimulus: external ex: a dream, apparition. Authority-> ex: an individual in an institutional position an elder, a soothsayer, a parent. We accept authority as knowing in absolute terms: we accept their proclamations as valid knowledge, as the truth. Intuition-> sense of knowing, comes from within, a person gets a sense about can"t attribute that sense to anything in particular something &
