CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frankfurt School, Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3109
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

Looking at assumptions of perspective, different perspectives on theory: klapper it(cid:859)s a si(cid:373)ple ge(cid:374)eralizatio(cid:374) and speculation on something, it does(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:374)ecessaril(cid:455) pro(cid:448)e a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g. A theory is only scientific if you can falsify it (e(cid:454). the speculatio(cid:374) is that it(cid:859)ll rai(cid:374) if (cid:449)e see dark clouds, if at one point this speculation goes wrong it becomes an anomaly) To show that an assertion can be false by observation or experimentation. Each human perception and every hypothesis emerge in a psycho-sociological context. Perception exists before reality (how we perceive the world comes first) Perceptions reproduce dominant interests: feyerabend told scientists not to take themselves too seriously. Truth is subjective not absolute and is based on perception. Information is the data available while knowledge is having the tools to use that information and decipher it. A paradigm is a set of beliefs that follow a typical pattern (ex. breakfast consisting of only select items and ends at a certain time is a paradigm)