SOCI 2150Y Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Fact, Systematic Sampling, Cluster Sampling
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Activities undertaken to advance knowledge, truth(s), social development . Using systematic, agreed-upon rules and tools of knowledge development (see p. 4) . -based on acceptance that researchers can study social groups and imagine social change without being able to view reality" directly or without having experienced that reality" and Assuming various possibilities of reality, understanding the broad range of possibilities for structuring research Scientific assertions must have both logical (criterion or assessing the validity of arguments) and empirical support (criterion requiring sensory experience as evidence) A scientific approach to discover reality through personal experience. The set of practices and techniques used to collect, process, and interpret information aimed at enhancing our understanding of reality. Causal reasoning: recognizes that future circumstances are somehow rooted in or conditioned by present ones, ex: studying hard will result in better grades. Probabilistic reasoning: such patterns of cause and effect are probabilistic in nature.
