SOAN 2120 Chapter Notes -Tacit Knowledge, Sampling Distribution, Histogram

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: D Walters

Document Summary

Social research: a process in which people combine a set of principles, outlooks, and ideas with a collection of specific practices, techniques, and strategies to produce knowledge. Authority: you accept something as being true because someone in a position of authority says it is true or because it in an authoritative publication, you are relying on authority as a basis for knowledge. Limitations: it is easy to overestimate the experience of people, authorities may not agree, authorities may not be equally dependable. Sometimes organizations or individuals give an appearance of authority so they can convince others to agree with something that they might not otherwise agree to. Tradition: tradition means you accept something as being true because it"s the way things have always been . Limitations: even if traditional knowledge was one true, it can become distorted as it is passed on, and soon it is no longer true.