SOCIOL 2KK3 Lecture Notes - Scientific Revolution, Scientific Method, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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Questioning research and the findings and not necessarily accepting: what is science. Science : the systematic study of the structure and behavior of physical and natural phenomena through observation and experiment. A systematic enterprise that blds and organizes knowledges on the form of testable explanations and predictions. Science is a focused, organized and systematic version of how we know the world by experience: we"re observing something. Knowledge comes from sensory experience, and by observing. Based on theory we develop: brief history of science. Questions about the world are answer by religious authorities. How things were, are, and going to be. But mathematics, astronomy emerge in ancient greece and egypt. There was an effort to understand the world outside of religious beliefs. First to suggest non-supernatural explanations for natural disasters. Eratothenes measure size of the earth using two sticks. It left a big hole in the scientific understanding of the world.
