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the exploration of and the idea that knowledge is generated socially, within contexts that are constructed over a period of time by people holding and being held by power structures; knowledge is constructed, questioned, refined, and encoded within those social entities.
What is sociology of knowledge?
100
Verstehen
What is German term for understanding?
100
Those events that occur are dependent upon conditions or other occurrences that have not yet been established; once those other conditions or occurrences are established, it is not certain that their establishment is inevitable- it could have been something else.
What is Contingent?
100
is the culturally specific set of characteristics that identifies the relations between women and men, and varies over time and across settings.
What is gender?
100
philosophical doctrine that maintains that texts, social structures, and events are better understood contextually, that is, within the context of their historical development.
What is historicism?
200
a non-static and non finalized correspondence between two separate orders, though one that is cognitively effective and successful. Dewey defined this term to replace the more common "truth" because he saw it as too limited and coercive.
What is Warranted beliefs?
200
Ontology
What is a branch of metaphysics that focuses on what exists; a philosophical investigation of the nature, constitution, and structure of reality?
200
Heuristic
What is a process, or method, that enables a person to learn something for themselves.
200
a social construct that divides people into smaller groups, based on traits such as language, behavioral patterns, history, ancestral geographical base, and shared sense of group membership. Used for identification, rather than differentiation.
What is ethnicity?
200
the theory of knowledge; or, the study of the nature of knowledge. Important questions focus on the nature of knowledge, the place of experience in generating knowledge, and the place of reason in doing so; relationship between knowledge and certainty, and between.
What is epistemology?
300
a philosophical movement that began in the 1920s through an outgrowth of British empiricism. Positivists maintained that assertions about the world could (and must) be verifiable through experience or observation.
What is positivism?
300
the general study of method in particular field of inquiry; the branch of philosophy, closely related to epistemology, which explores methods used by science to arrive at posited truths concerning the world.
What is methodology or methodologies?
300
The researcher must understand that the activities and explorations she undertakes create a value within the framework of interactions with her participants. Because she can never be detached from her work, her participants, or her inquiry, she must act with a framework that cares for and assumes responsibility for that, even after the work seems finished.
What is moral responsibility?
300
social theory that is concurrently self-reflexive, practical, normative, and explanatory.
What is critical theory?
300
a recognition that the formation or reformation of language, or the deeper understanding of the language we use, is better way to solve problems of a philosophy; a recognition that language does much more than relate events as they appear: language is a maker of meaning.
What is linguistic turn?
400
the statements a particular discipline or paradigm holds and makes that provide a foundation for thinking therein; things that the particular discipline is said to know.
What is knowledge claims?
400
Constructivism
What is theoretical perspective; maintains that knowledge is a product of our social practices and institutions; an interpretive stance that attends to "meaning-making" activities of individuals and societies.
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the coming together of our experiences, both old/new and direct/vicarious, that allows us to construct personal meaning; these frames are often formed out of our narratives.
What is intelligible frames?
400
a qualitative, interactive research methodology working from the theoretical frame that all societies have systematic inequalities; such inequalities are maintained by a complex culture.
What is critical ethnography?
400
a reasoned critique of many of the assumptions of the modern period; a reaction to modern philosophy, pondering in whose collective interest is scientific inquiry advanced; it is sometimes regarded as a complex cluster of categories of inquiry within a suspicion of grand and metanarratives, seeking to understand discrepancies between what we purport to know and what actions we take because of that belief.
What is postmodernism?
500
asks researcher to consider the consequences of their work; used to guide ethical judgment.
What is care theory?
500
Axiology
What is the study of values. A branch of philosophy focused on the nature of value and the kinds of things that have value?
500
This approach involves understanding that research is interactive, and is influenced by the researcher's own history, social class, gender, and ethnicity.
What is bricoleur?
500
consciously shared system of beliefs that echoes the interests of a group, nation, society, or political system.
What is ideology?
500
a way of looking back on the self and on inquiry that explores and demonstrates a situatedness and personal investment; to see the role of the self through probing the self for truthful insight.
What is self-reflexive