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Scientific Method |
Everything can be questioned what we consider to be "knowledge" should be considered tentative and subjective to refutation -evidence based -sample size should be large and diverse group - though authority or tradition or dogma *scientific method is not *small group samples *controlled |
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ways of knowing |
-personal experience -tradition -authority -common sense -popular media |
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Flaws and unscientific sources of social work practice |
inaccurate observation_ Questioning helps keep these observations in check. Over generalization_ Making assumptions without understanding everything can be problematic Selective observation_ Seeing what you want to see ex. post facto hypothesizing_making up your own conclusions without knowing all the facts Ego involvement in understanding_ knowing situation without full understanding Illogical reasoning_straw man agurment homiem attack discredit the person newness or promice premature closer_ not letting everything play out beacuse you closed case to early psedocience_ not quailified science |
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PARADIGMS |
assumptions made about nature and reality |
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positivist pradigm |
which emphasizes the pursuit of objectivity in our quest to observe and understand reality |
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Social constructionist paradigm |
Emphasis multiple subjective realities and the impossibility of objectivity |
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Postmoderism |
objective reality does not ever exist |
