Science/Scientific Method
This refers to a systematic and organized body of knowledge acquired using scientific inquiry.
What is science?
This term refers to a generalized body of laws and theories to explain behavior or phenomena.
What is Scientific Knowledge?
This type of research is conducted in new areas of inquiry.
What is exploratory research?
The goal of this research is to infer concepts from data.
What is inductive research?
This is a systematic logical reasoning
What is rationalism?
The science of naturally occurring objects or phenomena.
What is Natural Science?
These are observed patterns of behavior or phenomena.
What are laws?
This type of research tries to explain observes phenomena, behaviors, or problems.
What is explanatory research?
The goal of this research is to test theories using data.
What is deductive research?
Francis Bacon suggested that knowledge can only be derived from real observations in the world, and started this branch of philosophy
What is empiricism?
This refers to a set of techniques for building scientific knowledge.
What is the scientific method?
These are systematic explanations of laws.
What are theories?
This type of research is directed at making observations and detailed documentation of a phenomenon of interest.
What is descriptive research?
These are the two essential components of scientific research.
What are theory and observations?
Augusts Comte blended rationalism and empiricism into this new doctrine
The science of people, or a collection of people.
What is Social Science?
These are pillars upon which scientific knowledge is based.
What are logic and evidence?
The results of this research tend to be general and serve as precursors to more targeted research.
What is exploratory research?
These are the sets of skills needed to conduct scientific research.
What are theoretical and methodological skills?
This branch of philosophy focused on understanding nature and the physical universe
What is natural philosophy?
These are the four key characteristics of the scientific method.
What are: logical, confirmable, repeatable, and scrutinizable?
These validate or refine existing theory or construct new theory.
What are observations?
These are three possible goals of exploratory research.
What are 1) to scope out the extent of a phenomenon, 2) to generate "hunches", 3) to test the feasibility of more extensive study?
These are possible goals of theory-testing research.
What are testing, refinement, improvement, and extension?
Also called critical theory, this aims to solve social inequlity
What is critical research?