CCT208H5 Chapter 1: CCT208 - Chapter 1 Notes
12 Jan 2014
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Research is a way of going about finding answers to questions. Social research is conducted to learn something new about the social world. Social research is 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. Knowledge on topics based on personal experiences, magazines and books, movies and television, and even common sense". Acquiring knowledge from parents, teachers, experts etc. Basically accepting something is true based on the position of authority of the said person. Authorities spend time and effort to learn something and you benefit from their experiences and work. Limitations to this is the fact that authorities can in fact, be wrong: tradition. Tradition means you accept something as being true because it"s the way things have always been . Could also be prejudices and myths etc: common sense. Knowing things based on the fact that it just makes sense .
