SOC221H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Qualitative Property, Institute Of Historical Research
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People use the findings from social research to reduce crime, improve public health, sell products or just understand aspects of their lives. Practical skills: the knowledge you acquire from learning something and you can use in everyday life as a consumer. To learn something new about the social world. To document guesses, hunches or beliefs about the social world. Refine understanding of how the social world works. 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. Knowledge based on research are more accurate and have fewer errors: authority. When you accept something as true because someone in a position of authority says its true, you"re relying on authority based on knowledge o. Authorities may not agree and all authorities may not be equally dependable. May speak on issues and topics they may not know about.
