SOCB05H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Foundations, Empirical Evidence, Relative Risk
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Growing up in society is a big part of knowing to believing what others say they. Its dark on the cold side of the moon. We know some things through tradition or others from experts. Agreement reality - what we know according to culture and society. Experimental reality - what we know from personal experience and discovery. Science looks at logical and empirical support. Methodology - the science of finding out. Patterns of cause and effect are probabilistic. There needs to be a cause for an effect. Human inquiry aims to answer what and why by observing and figuring out. By accepting what everyone knows, there is no need to start from scratch and do your own research - this hinders human inquiry. More likely to believe someone of status. Someone of expertise may speak out go their their knowledge. Conscious activity in contrast to cause human inquiry. Replication - repeating a previous research study to confirm or question it.
