SOC200H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Qualitative Property, Nomothetic, Dependent And Independent Variables

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Chapter 1: human inquiry and science (ken yu) We know some things through tradition, some things from experts . When our experience conflicts with what everyone else knows, we"ll surrender our experience in favour of the agreement. This chapter focuses at how we know what is real. Agreement reality: what we know through the culture we share. Experiential reality: what is known through personal experience and discovery. Tradition: we simply accept the great majority of them; cumulative and an inherited body of information; can both enhance and hinder human inquiry (seeking different understanding) Authority: inquiry from professionals that we depend on; someone"s expertise; can both enhance and hinder human inquiry (experts speaking outside their realm of expertise) Scientists accept the reality of things (agreement reality), they don"t personally experience. Humans seem predisposed to causal and probabilistic reasoning. Human inquiry aims at answering both what and why questions.

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