Topic 7 - Science as a belief system

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  • Created on: 23-05-15 17:29
When do most sociologists believe that the rationalisation that brought about science happened?
Protestant reformation
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What has science helped to eradicate?
Fatal Diseases
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Was has been bettered as a result of science?
Living standards
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What problems has science caused for society?
Global warming
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What is the term used to refer to the ability science gives us to explain, predict and control the world?
Cognitive thinking
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What theorists thinks that science is an open belief system?
Popper
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By being open, it means science is open to ... F
Falsificationism
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Science is able to build on the findings of previous scientists to develop greater theories, this is called ....
Cumulative
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What does Science receive from other institutions that Merton says is the reason for its rapid growth?
Support
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What does Merton call the norm for scientific knowledge to be shared?
Communism
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What does Merton call the norm of science to be judged by universal objective criteria (e.g. testing)?
Universalism
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What does Merton call the way in which scientific knowledge is not sacred but open to questioning?
Organised scepticism
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If science is an open belief system, what is religion?
Closed
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What is an example of religion being a closed belief system?
Witchcraft in the Azande
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What does Polanyi call the way in which each idea in religion is explained by another idea and so forth?
Circularity
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What does Kuhn call the way in which science is based on shared assumptions?
Paradigm
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What does Woolgar say scientists do to their findings to fit with the expectations of society?
Tailor
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What is an example of Woolgar's theory?
Little Green Men
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How do Marxists and Feminists see science? As
far from the truth
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What do post modernists reject? One version of the
Truth
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