SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Foundations, Scientific Theory, Nomothetic
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Commit sociology chapter 1 human inquiry and science notes. * most of what you know is a matter of agreement and belief. * it is important to realise that most of what we know is a matter of believing what we have been told. * we can know from agreement (above) and direct experience. * we will learn how we know whats real. * in general, scientific assertion must have both logical ad empirical support. > it must make sense, and it must not contradict actual observation. * science offers special approach to the business of inquiry. > epistemology is the science of knowing, methodology might be called the science of finding out. * humans seem predisposed to undertake thins task using causal or conditioned by present ones. * such patterns of cause and effect are probabilistic in nature. > when the causes occur than when the causes are absent - but not always.
