CS235 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Fact, Univariate, Telephone Directory
8 Dec 2013
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2 basic logics of research inquiry: naturalism: Karl popper: social sciences should be modeled after or organized the same as the natural sciences. Interpretivist" is looking for meanings and motives behind people"s actions like behaviour or interaction with others. Social sciences cannot be modeled on the natural sciences. Need to consider meaning making by the people who make the meaning. We need to gout and find out why people are doing certain things. Both are compromised with 3 logics of knowing: epistemology: The logical practice of organizing the process of coming to knowledge. How we know or understand the world is a function of where we are located or place from which we come to knowledge: ontology: Wiki: the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Questions of ontology entail questions about the nature of existence. Organizing principle by which we understand what is .
