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14 Cards in this Set
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Social science is a ________ study. |
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Social Science |
It is divided into different areas according to focus or subject. All of which are interrelated with each other where some aspects can be explained in different perspectives. |
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Age of Enlightenment |
The history of social science begins in the ________ after 1650, which saw a revolution within natural philosophy, changing the basic framework by which individuals understood what was "scientific". |
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Age of Revolutions |
Social science came forth from the moral philosophy of the time and was influenced by the ________, such as the Industrial Revolution and French Revolution |
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experimental and applied |
The Social Science developed from the sciences (_______), or the systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practices, relating to the social improvement of a group of interacting entities. |
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positivism |
Social Science was influenced by _______, focusing on knowledge based on actual positive sense experience and avoiding the negative. |
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social research |
One route that was taken was the rise of ___. Large statistical surveys were undertaken in various part of United States and Europe. It is influenced by Augustus Comte |
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social facts |
Another route undertaken was initiated by Emile Durkheim studying "_______" |
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Social facts |
The values, cultural norms, and social structures which trascend the individual and are capable of exercising social control. |
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methodological dichotomy |
A third means developed, arising from the _____ present, in which social phenomena were identified with and understood. It was championed by Max Weber |
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economics |
The fourth route taken was based in _______. It was developed and furthered economic knowledge as a hard science. |
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antipositivism and verstehen sociology |
The last path was the correlation of knowledge and social values: the ______ and ______ of Max Weber. |
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Antipositivism |
it is (also known as interpretivism or negativism) is the belief within social science that the social realm is not subject to the same methods of investigation as the natural world. |
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social research - Augustus Comte social facts - Emile Durkheim methodological dichotomy -Max Weber economics antipositivism and verstehen sociology - Max Weber |
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