How to generate topic in Social Scientific Thinking _ Nithin K
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The document discusses the process of generating discussion topics within social scientific thinking, emphasizing its importance in understanding societal problems. It outlines the steps involved in scientific inquiry, including defining the problem, formulating hypotheses, and analyzing data. Various critical and unscientific problem-solving methods are also examined, highlighting the role of rational and critical thinking in research.
How to generate topic in Social Scientific Thinking _ Nithin K
- 1. Nithin K Research Scholar School of Social Sciences How to generate a topic of discussion in the midst of social scientific thinking
- 2. Social Science realm Human Society
- 3. Social Scientific Thinking “ A ladder to understand problems of society (world reality)”
- 4. Ultimate aim of research Knowledge Experience New Knowledge Debate / Discussion / Questioning
- 5. Rational thinking were not allowed in early period
- 7. 7 Unscientific Methods of Problem Solving • Tenacity • Intuition • Authority • The rationalistic method • The empirical method “Why some people remain in poverty?
- 8. 8 Scientific Method of Problem Solving • Step 1: develop the problem (define and delimit it) – identify independent and dependent variables • Step 2: formulate the hypotheses – the anticipated outcome • Step 3: gather data – maximize internal and external validity • Step 4(5): analyze and interpret results
- 10. Enabling Factors • Curiosity • Skepticism • Objectivity
- 11. “The more you ask the more you get”
- 12. Phases of scientific investigation • Inquiry • Analysis • Inference • Argument
- 14. A framework for understanding the steps of scientific inquiry • Initial question, problem, idea, or issue • Specific purpose, question, or prooblamatisation • Data collection – what data are collected? From whom? • Analysis of data • Discussion and interpretation • Conclusion – answers to research questions, limitations, and generalizability
- 15. Reference • Gorton, W. A. (n.d.). The Philosophy of Social Science. Internet Encylopedia of Social Science. Retrieved March 26, 2014, from http://www.iep.utm.edu/soc-sci/ • Hoover, K. R. (1976). The elements of social scientific thinking. New York: St. Martin's Press. • Klahr, D. (2000). Exploring science the cognition and development of discovery processes. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. • Kuhn, D. (2003). What is Scientific Thinking and How Does it Develop. Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development (pp. 126-145). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
- 16. • Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. • Kuper, A. (2004). The social science encyclopedia (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. • Mill, J. S. (1961). Auguste Comte and positivism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. • Morgan, D. L. (2007). Paradigms Lost And Pragmatism Regained: Methodological Implications Of Combining Qualitative And Quantitative Methods. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1(1), 48-76.
Editor's Notes
- #2: Asking how enables the idea to question?The power of questioning is most important in any social scientific thinking
- #3: ScopeNatureInterDisciplinaryetc
- #4: All problem can get an answer within scientific releam
- #6: Celebrating the tutelage
- #7: The age of Enlightenment bought out to think rationally and criticallyKant, and following philosophers