SSH 301 Study Guide - Final Guide: Syphilis, Autoethnography, Saulteaux

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 301
• Professor: Sal Guzzo

Document Summary

Idealism reality is interpretive can only be understood through the human mind and socially constructed meanings: materialism reality is external, independent of the human mind and consists only of the physical/material world. Non material external phenomena are shaped by the material (ie. religion, experience, values, etc. Epistemology: epistemology refers to the philosophical study of how we know how knowledge is acquired, key epistemological debates: What is the relationship between researcher and object of research? (objective vs. value mediated). Can we know truth" and is there a truth" to be uncovered? (correspondence vs. intersubjective vs. pragmatic). How do we obtain knowledge? (induction vs. deduction: basic epistemological positions: Tenets of positivism and how they relate to qualitaitve research: positivism reality exists independent of human action and cognition, the world is driven by causal, law-like relationships, which are observable, testable, measurable and replicable. The idea of a total" truth relies on the idea that there is one singular truth to be uncovered.