CS235 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sam Dunn, 4Chan, Grounded Theory
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Moving from social facts to social constructivism as the dominant model of research and analysis. Social sciences cannot be modeled on the natural sciences. Go out a(cid:374)d fi(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat people are doi(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d the(cid:374) de(cid:448)elop a (cid:858)grou(cid:374)ded theor(cid:455)(cid:859) Validit(cid:455) is grou(cid:374)ded i(cid:374) lo(cid:272)alized truths of (cid:858)e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:859), (cid:374)ot theoreti(cid:272)al h(cid:455)pothesis or (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)epts. (cid:862)culture is (cid:374)ot a free floati(cid:374)g set of ideas or beliefs, nor is it exemplified only by a canon of great works of art or literature(cid:863) Culture is (cid:862)(cid:271)roadl(cid:455) the produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g or sig(cid:374)if(cid:455)i(cid:374)g pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e that happe(cid:374)s at e(cid:448)er(cid:455) le(cid:448)el of the social and at every moment within cultural process. Culture is both a noun and a verb, objects and subjects, artifacts and action. Gray locates the nexus of culture as noun and verb, as embodying the symbolic and the material, at the i(cid:374)terse(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of (cid:862)the so(cid:272)ial a(cid:374)d the te(cid:454)tual(cid:863) (cid:894)13(cid:895)
