CS235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ebsco Information Services, Scientific Method, Verstehen
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1. One research article
2. In a peer reviewed comm studies journal
3. On a type of physical or mental illness or disability
4. Published between 2000-2017
5. That…?
Library - ebscohost - choose databases - limit results select scholarly (peer reviewed journals) -
communication
Generating Research Questions and Finding Resources
Ontology - what is reality?
Epistemology - how can we acquire knowledge?
Theoretical Perspective - what approach can we use to get knowledge?
Methodology - what procedures can we use?
Methods - which tools can we use?
Ontology - theory of being
● Onto - being/existence
● What is the nature of reality?
● Philosophical ontology
○ Reality as internal (idealism) vs external (realism)
● Social ontology
○ Single reality (objectivism) vs multiple realities (constructivism)
○ Top left corner: objectivism, bottom left: pragmatism, bottom right: constructivism
Epistemology - theory of knowledge
● Non-Scientific Way of Knowing
○ Knowing on a priori grounds - intuitively true, based on reasonableness not
experience
○ Knowing by tenacity - taken as true because commonly held to be true
○ Knowing by authority
● Scientific Way of Knowing
○ The scientific method - systematic/empirical observation, test plausibility of
hypotheses, experimentation, generalization
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Document Summary
Library - ebscohost - choose databases - limit results select scholarly (peer reviewed journals) - communication. Reality as internal (idealism) vs external (realism) Single reality (objectivism) vs multiple realities (constructivism) Top left corner: objectivism, bottom left: pragmatism, bottom right: constructivism. Knowing on a priori grounds - intuitively true, based on reasonableness not experience. Knowing by tenacity - taken as true because commonly held to be true. The scientific method - systematic/empirical observation, test plausibility of hypotheses, experimentation, generalization. Empiricism: knowledge through sensory experience, a posteriori. All humans are mortal, socrates is a human, therefore socrates is moral. Theory - hypothesis - observation - confirmation. Every raven i have seen was black, i have seen hundreds of them, therefore, ravens are black. Observation - pattern - tentative hypothesis, theory. Science takes place within a certain framework, or a paradigm. 3 paradigms of knowing for comm research. Falsifiable - claims are false until we can prove they are true.
