Lecture Series One and Two

The process of critical thinking is similar to

Thesis, paragraph, SARA Model

The process of critical thinking involves four steps

1) Identify the problem
2) Review what you know about it
3) Analyze what you have remembered
4) Draw Conclusions

Agreement reality is drawn from

Culture Tradition and Authority

An example of a possible error in agreement reality is

1) Out of cultural context :( imposing ones reality upon another culture w/o sensitivity)
2) Experts making errors or speaking outside their field

Experiential reality is also known as

1st hand knowledge

Agreement reality is also known as

2nd hand knowledge

An example of a possible error in experimental reality is

our generalization

The Idea that humans are actively involved in the shaping of their physical and social environments, and are in turn shaped by those environments, is defined as

Marxian Dialectic

A______level of abstraction focuses on the processes and structures within the human body and mind, such as how the mind weighs the cost and benefits of an act or how neurotransmitters affect behavior

Micro Theoretical

A ________ level of abstraction works with social institutions or broad sociological concepts to explain crime and crime rates.

Macro Theoretical

A_________ level of abstraction helps to explain how criminality is learned within groups or how society contributes to the internalization of criminal codes.

Meso Theoretical

The logic of explanation that moves from the specific to the general, from a set of particular observations to the discovery of a pattern or theory is called

Inductive Reasoning

The logic of explanation that moves from the general to the specific, from theoretical hypotheses to empirical observations is called

Deductive Reasoning

A ______ is generally used in the context of social scientific research to mean some phenomenon that has been observed.

Fact

A ______ is an assumption about reality that is sometimes accepted to be true without proof; it is also known as a domain assumption.

Axioms

A ________ is a universal generalization about classes of facts' it is also known as a principle.

Laws

A _______ is a logical statement about the existence or nonexistence of a particular axiom within reality.

Propositions

According to the lecture notes a _____ represents the coming together of experimental and agreement realities

Theory

In the lecture notes, the professor defined______ as a statement about expected observations.

Hypothesis

Concepts are _______ in nature

Abstract

According to the lecture notes, variables are _____ in nature

abstract

Variables are defined by their

Attributes

According to the lecture notes, attributes are _____ in nature and _______.

Concrete and Measurable

A _________ represents an ensemble of theories, or an overall manner through which things are perceived

Paradigm

The science or study of ways of knowing is called

Epistemology

True or false the term epistemology is accurately defined as ones perspective or point of view

False