SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Pediatrics, Research, Institutional Review Board

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Starts with two simple requirements: apply the sociological perspective, be curious and ask questions. Then we face the challenge task of finding answers to our questions. To understand the kind of insights sociology offers, we need to realize that there are various kinds of (cid:498)truth(cid:499) Saying that we (cid:498)know(cid:499) something can mean many things. Peoples (cid:498)truths(cid:499) differ their child"s pediatrician about which practices are (cid:498)right(cid:499)(cid:524: agreement among ordinary people (cid:523)ex. Everyone (cid:498)knows(cid:499) that sex: belief or faith, pronouncement of some recognized expert (ex. Science, then, represents a fourth way of knowing. Science: a logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation. Standing away from faith, the wisdom of experts, and general agreement, among 10 year olds is wrong) scientific knowledge rests on empirical evidence: empirical evidence: information we can verify with our senses. We all embrace various kinds of truths at the same time.