History
An artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.
Term referring to the philosophical study of beauty and arts.
What is Aesthetics?
Term in statistics refers to the complete set of items or individuals under consideration.
Term referring to a set of ideas, methods, or practices that are mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific principles.
What is pseudoscience?
Field of study focuses on the behavior and interactions of individuals within a society, as well as the structures and institutions that influence these behaviors.
What is Sociology?
A document or recording that relates or discusses information in history.
What is secondary source?
Term referring to the storytelling or the retelling of a sequence of events, often in a chronological order?
What is Narrative?
Term in statistics describes the degree to which two or more variables are related or change together.
Term referring to a widely accepted scientific framework, theories, methodologies, and practices that guide scientific research within a particular field.
What is scientific paradigm?
Academic discipline is concerned with the theory and practice of politics and government, as well as the analysis of political systems and behavior.
What is Political science?
Term referring to the practice of suppressing or limiting access to certain information, ideas, or media by a controlling body.
What is censorship?
Term describing the ability to generate ideas, solutions, or possibilities that are novel and valuable?
What is Creativity?
A logical argument that demonstrates the validity of a statement?
What is Proof?
The systematic approach used by scientists to explore observations, solve problems, and support or refute theories.
What is scientific method?
Type of data in social sciences is descriptive and often based on observation, interviews, or interpretation of texts and documents.
What is Qualitative data?
Term for the tendency to perceive events as being more predictable after they have occurred?
What is Hindsight Bias?
Term for art or other objects that are considered to be in poor taste, often because it is derivative and cliched?
What is Kitsch?
A statement that has been proven on the basis of previously established statements.
What is Theorem?
The approach to scientific reasoning that emphasizes the use of observations and experiments to formulate general principles.
What is Inductivism?
Latin phrase that refers to the logical fallacy of assuming that because one event follows another, the first event caused the second?
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
Term describing the approach to history that recognizes and includes multiple perspectives and interpretations of historical events.
What is Pluralistic History?
Term in aesthetics referring to the ability to appreciate or evaluate a work of art without personal bias or vested interest
What is Disinterested?
A set of symbols and rules for manipulating them, which can be used to represent mathematical ideas.
What is formal system?
Term referring to the change in the behavior of a phenomenon being observed due to the act of observing itself.
What is Observer Effect?
Term associated with Max Weber, referring to the empathetic understanding of human behavior and the ability to grasp the subjective reasons and motives behind people's actions.
What is Verstehen position?