SOCIOL 5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nomothetic, Dependent And Independent Variables, Determinism
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Being told and believing what you"re told. Most of what we know is a matter of agreements and belief. Initial feelings from personal experience and then comparing with what you have learned in society. First answer is science (agreement reality and experiential reality) Scientific assertion requires logical and empirical support. (mustn"t contradict actual observation) Epistemology and methodology: science of knowing and (subfield of epistemology) science of finding out. We recognize future circumstances are caused by present ones. We learn that patterns of cause and effect are probabilistic (effects occur more often when the causes occur than when causes are absent) Understanding relations and patterns help improve predictions. Agreement reality: both assist and hinders our attempts to find out for ourselves. (knowledge we agree with) Culture inherited (firmly accepted knowledge of the world"s workings) Acceptance of new knowledge depends on the status of the discoverer. Doctor vs. lawyer on knowledge of common cold.
