COMM 004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Domestic Violence, Toronto Star, Social Impact Assessment
28 Oct 2020
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Science for centuries has had two different groups of research such as: an academic approach that is detached and purely scientific or an activist approach, which is more pragmatic and interventionist, oriented. Researchers often shift between the two styles through their careers as they shift their concentration from either advancing general knowledge over the long term or studying to solve specific problems. Academic social research advances fundamental knowledge about the social world. Academic researchers focus on testing theories that explain how the social world operates. Academic research is often criticized as being a waste of time; this being because the research conducted is often very broad in scope and for it often not having much application. However much of the foundations and tools used for applies research can be sourced from academic research, by researching such broad topics we are able to create tools that allow use to determine the underlying factors between people decisions.
