[SOC221H5] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (25 pages long!)
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What we know as part and parcel of the culture we share with those around us. What we know from personal experience and discovery. Essentially if our experience conflicts with what everyone else knows we are likely to surrender our experience in favour of agreed upon knowledge. Example: deep fried worms (initial likely was the experience, after disgust was based on our agreement reality) Essentially most of what we know is a matter of agreement and belief little of it is based on personal experience and discovery. The basis of knowledge is agreement as we cant learn everything through direct experience. What we know, we know by agreement rather than by experience. Essentially two sources of agreed-upon knowledge are tradition and authority. Circumstances are some how caused or conditioned by present ones. Cause and effect are probabilistic in nature, essentially the effects occur more often when the causes occur than when the causes are absent but not always.
