SOCI 2030 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pseudoscience
19 Oct 2017
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Interested in understanding science as a social group. He discusses a time back in western society, when there was a revolt against science, a(cid:374)d they (cid:449)a(cid:374)ted to spread their (cid:271)elief that they do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e i(cid:374) i(cid:374)telle(cid:272)tualis(cid:373) He believes that the modern science spread out into a set of four norms: universalism: This is the idea that the important issue for scientists if the content of the claims made, or the phenomena being studied. No matter who you are, you can participate in scientific edaveours: communism: Scientific knowledge is a resource to be shared by the whole tribe of science. The benefits of social science research/ science in general should be available to everyone: knowledge should be shared by others (honesty, disinterestedness. You are not invested in the outcome: organized skepticism. If your article/research is good, itll be published. Cross-sectional: where a researcher examines a single point in time. Eg. all york students taking a survey today.
