CMNS 260 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Social Impact Assessment, Qualitative Property, Ideal Type
3 Feb 2016
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Easy to overestimate the expertise of other people. Allow logical fallacies to slip into thinking. Tend to perpetuate the myths of a culture. Competing interests use the media to win public support. Some evidence supports a belief, but a person falsely assumes that ot applies to many other situations too. Tendency to take notice of certain people or events based on past experience or attitudes. When a person feels he or she has the answers and does not need to listen, seek information, or raise questions any longer. When a person overgeneralizes from what he or she accepts as. How science works being highly positive or prestigious and let its strong reputation or prestige rub off onto other areas. Social institution and a means of producing knowledge. Empirical evidence observations that people experience through the senses. Designed to advance fundamental knowledge about the social world. Focus of testing theories that explain how the social world operates.
