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Every day ways of knowing-

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Relying on knowledge that we have not questioned or tested.

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Personal Experience-

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See it to believe it.

Ex: We learned not to touch hot stoves after getting burned.

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Intuition-

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Something is right or wrong because it “makes sense”.

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Authority-

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You trust the person who said it since he’s an expert.

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Appeals to faith, tradition, and custom-

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Believe not rest on logical evidence.

Ex: Always been that way, you can’t go against it.

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Magic, superstition-

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Used it to explain strange events.

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Research-

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Discovering answers through scientific application.

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What are the 2 types of research?

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Propriety research- conducted for specific audience, no share.
Scholarly research- conducted to promote public access to knowledge.

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Theory-

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Set of informed hunches about how things work.

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Paradigms-

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Basic set of belief that represents a worldly view.

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World View I-

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Social science- knowledge acquired by observing behavior a group of individuals. Using QUANTITATIVE data through surveys. Reality is out there to discover.

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World View II-

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Interpretivist- Reality is SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED by communicating w/ each other. Using QUALITATIVE data through interviews. Can’t predict human behavior.

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World View III-

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Critical Theorist- Not predictable. Socially Constructed. Used to analyze historical and qualitative interviewing.