Sociology 3306A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: System On A Chip, Serendipity, Deductive Reasoning
26 Oct 2016
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Monday, september 12, 2016 soc 3306 chapter 2- the nature of science. Sociology and other social sciences are scienti c but can be rejected as scienti c by students because they aren"t the same as bio and chemistry etc. Science is not really about collections of facts and formulas, etc, it is about something more general, the uni es sociology and other social sciences with natural sciences. What unites these are the objectives, presuppositions, general methodology, and its logic the aim of science. Science is a matter of perspective and judgement, something you nd trivial today may end up being tomorrows major scienti c discovery. Aim of science is to produce knowledge, to understand and explain some aspect of the world around us. 2 interrelated sets of criteria determine the acceptance or rejection of certain knowledge. The real goal of science is to achieve understanding, the basic product is ideas. Monday, september 12, 2016 science as a product.
