1. Method of Tenacity

2. Method of Authority

3. Method of Intiuition

4. Method of Science

Method of established belief, some authority told me, may or may not be correct

Ex: Religion, Parents

Agree with relason and not necessarily with experience.

Self-evident to many people, common sense

• Questioning within the method,
• how are we knowing, reflecting  truth
• reality does need to be explained
• self-correction/open to public scrutiny.
• Outside of personal biases, beliefs and objectivity.

• Accumulation of the interpretation
• Truth doesn't need knowledge
• belief's become my truth

Ex: Truth-fish is in the water   

truth -How to fish  

• Test for internal consistency
• Realize man made term

loose fashion

use theories

Blandly accept explanations

Ex: You're sick because you sinned

Jolly cuz you're fat

Aren't selective all evidence is evidence

Test in labs or in the field not concerned with relationship between/ only

• Selective evidence
• select evidence because it is consisent with hypothesis
• EX: Stereotype Asians are Good in Math

• Try to rule out possible casuses
• Go beyond what's obvious
• Poor=deliquency
• What about those who are poor and not deliquent

• Stop at 1st Explanation that makes sense
• Validate what we already believe
• Accept explanations that are in accord with their biasand preconcieved notions.

• Consciously and systematically pursues relationships.
• Scientific method looks at both reward and punishment
• rule out metaphysical answers cannot be tested  EX: Boys will be boys
• publicly observed and tested

• uses common sense for explanation of phenomena
• loose, unsystematic, uncontrolled cause and effect.

• serving to discover or themselves
• problem solving rather than facts

provides a conceptual framework for seeing and maiking sense of the social world

-perception is reality