SOCY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Causal Reasoning, Qualitative Property, Social Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 210
• Professor: Fiona Kay

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Socy 210 textbook chapter 1: human inquiry and science on personal experience and discovery. Most of your knowledge is a matter of agreement and belief. Little of it is based: you could also learn things through direct experience observation, when our experience conflicts with what everyone else knows there"s a good chance we"ll surrender our experience in favour of the agreement. Scientific assertion must have both logical and empirical support: it must make sense, and it must not contradict actual observation. Science also offers a special approach to the business of inquiry: epistemology: is the science of knowing. Methodology: sub-field of epistemology and might be called the. 1. science of finding out: methodology illuminates procedure for scientific investigation. Humans seem predisposed to undertake this task using; All people and many animals exhibit a desire to predict future circumstances: causal reasoning: we generally know that future circumstance are somehow caused or conditioned by present ones.