As something real that can be studied objectively as it's made up of social facts.
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What is induction?
Accumulating data and observing the world through careful observation and measurement.
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What does induction claim to do?
Verify a theory - Verificationism
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What is a paradigm?
Set of beliefs and values shared by members of a given scientific community and defines what science is.
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Why do Popper and Kuhn disagree about the nature of science?
Popper - Sees science as open community free to challenge and develop new ideas.
Kuhn - Sees scientists as conformists as they blindly follow the paradigm without questioning.
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Paradigm Shift - Kuhn
Where there is overwhelming evidence to reject an existing paradigm, a new one is created.
E.g. Newton's law of Universal gravitation being replaced by Einstein's theory of relativity.- Wouldn't consider
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Atkinson
Argues suicide official statistics are a social construction reflecting behaviour of doctors,coroners etc. and their definition of suicide.
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How do positivists study society?
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As something real that can be studied objectively as it's made up of social facts.
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