What are the two realities that explain how we know what we know?
-:- Experiential - direct experience
Agreement - what we've been told
What is tradition? Give an example.
-:- Things that "everybody knows"
Ex: Driving on the left side of the road in the U.S. is dangerous
What is authorit...
Data Collection Methods - Explains how observations will be collected
Analysis - Specifies how the observations will be analyzed
References - List of materials consulted and cited
Schedule - A timeline for the various stages of the proposal
Budget - Species where money to support the research will be spent
Social Scientific Theory
✓ -:- Discovering what is, not what should be
- Cannot settle debates on value
- Problematic with evaluators
Ex: What constitutes a good parole officer?
Social science aims to find...
✓ -:- Patterns of regularity in social life created by norms, rules, and
observations
What kind of patterns do social regularities represent?
✓ -:- Probabilistic
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