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| What is the Social Sciences? |
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| The study of society and human relationships; disciplines that are concerned with the systematic study of human behaviour |
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| What aspect of society is Political Science? |
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| What aspect of society is Anthropology? |
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| What aspect of society is Labour Studies? |
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| What aspect of society is Philosophy? |
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| Knowledge and Reality; Ethics |
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| What aspect of society is Geography? |
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| People in place and space |
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| What aspect of society is Gender Studies? |
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| What aspect of society is Sociology? |
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| What aspect of society is Psychology? |
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| What aspect of society is Economics? |
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| What is the Sociological Imagination? |
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| Quality of mind that allows us to go beyond what is happening to any individual and look at broader context of what is going on in society and the world |
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| What were the Ancient Greeks 3 main ideas? |
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| Empiricism, Deductive Logic and Rationalism. |
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| human intellect (reason) the ultimate basis of knowledge |
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| Knowledge comes via sensory experience |
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| What was the context of the Reformation? |
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| Christian Europe (state religion), one set of values and beliefs, afterlife more important than this one |
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| When was the Reformation started and by whom? |
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| Where was the Reformation and why did it happen? |
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| Abuse of position in the Church, started in Germany and spread all over Western Europe |
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| What were the consequences of the Reformation? |
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| Religious wars, new worship, Bible democratised, literacy |
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| What were the lasting effects of the Reformation? |
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| Individualism, breakdown of authority |
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| What was the context of Enlightenment? |
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| scientific progress – Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, political upheavals (Glorious Revolution), John Locke (ideas about knowledge and politics) |
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| When and where was the Enlightenment? |
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| 18th Century, Western Europe, centered in Paris. |
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| Why did the Enlightenment happen? Who influenced it? |
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| Scientific progress caused re-thinking of ideas about God, authority, knowledge, society. Influenced by Locke, Newton, Diderot. |
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| What were the key events in the Enlightenment? |
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| American Revolution, 1776. French Revolution, 1789. |
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| What were the ideas inherited and what was the key publication in the Enlightenment? |
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| Empiricism, individualism, the Encyclopedia. |
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| What is Scientific Method? |
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| A method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. |
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| Customary rules of behavior in a group or society that coordinate interactions between the members of that group or society |
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| What is Social Science Research? |
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| The systematic and self-critical, yet limited, intensive searching for knowledge about people’s social lives, activities, and meanings |
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| What are the Research Methods? |
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| Reading, asking, observing, participating, experimenting. |
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| What are the two research strategies? Explain what they mean. |
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| Quantitative - information which can be readily reduced to numerical data. Qualitative - based on idea that people create social reality in their meanings and activities. |
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| What are the Research perspectives and who are the researchers for each one? |
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| Positivism - Scientist, Interpretivism - storyteller, Critical - activist/advocate. |
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