The enduring aspects of human existence that are of interest to scholars
What is Phenomena
100
The diverse approaches that the disciplines use to know and describe reality.
What is Epistemological Pluralism
100
Biology is the study of behavior of the living physical world, rather than the mental ones.
What is Natural Science
100
The academic communities that exhibit a disciplinary perspective.
What is Disciplines
200
Textual analysis is a method of...
What is Qualitative approach
200
The branch of philosophy that studies how one know what is true and how one validates truth.
What is Epistemology
200
Beliefs in objective, empirically based, rationally analyzed truth that is knowable.
What is the Modernist Approaches
200
Chemistry focuses on the distinctive properties of the elements, individually and compounds, and their interactions.
What is Natural Science
200
Disagreement among a discipline's practitioners over the defining elements of the discipline.
What is Cognitive Discord
300
Experiments are a method of...
What is Quantitative approach
300
Something taken for granted, a supposition.
What is Assumptions
300
the "Law and Order" approach
What is Epistemological Positivism
300
History is a study of historical events resulting from societal forces, individual decisions and trends leading up to a time period.
What is Humanities
300
The enduring aspects of human existance that are of interest to scholars and are susceptible to scholarly description and explanation.
What is Phenomena
400
Surveys are a method of...
What is Quantitative approach
400
A symbol expressed in language that represents a phenomenon or an abstract idea generalized from particular instances.
What is Concepts
400
Typically operate under the assumption that there is no such thing as objective truth, and that knowledge is explained discursively.
What is Postmodernist Approaches
400
Psychology sees human behavior as reflecting the cognitive constructs individuals develop to organize their mental activity.
What is Social Sciences
400
The branch of philosophy that studies how one knows what is true and how one validates truth.
What is Epistemology
500
Intuition/experience are methods of ...
What is Qualitative approach
500
Concerns how one conducts research, analyzes data or evidence, tests theories, and creates new knowledge.
What is Method
500
A comprehensive explanation or totalizing truth embedded in a culture that is created and reinforced by power structures and is therefore not to be trusted.
What is Metanarrative
500
Anthropology sees individual cultures as organic integrated wholes with their own internal logic and culture.
What is Social Sciences
500
A generalized scholarly explanation about some aspect of the natural world, how it works, and why specific facts are related, supported by data and research.