Your attention to reading questions is critical to class discussion. Responses may be in note form and must include direct reference to key terms and cited passages from the reading. Responses to all questions should be limited to one sheet. Notes will be collected on an occasional basis.
Week Two
•According to Descartes, what are the pitfalls in the effort to obtain true knowledge? What are the steps of attaining true knowledge?
•How does the portrait of social research provide by Khan and Fisher seem to extend and/or contrast with Descartes’ method?
Week Three
•Based on Delanty and Strydom’s description of positivism (pp. 13-14), and the position of Neuarth and Nagel, make the case that Khan and Fisher (pp. 1 - 50) follow a postivistic approach to research?
• What features of experimentation represent positivism?
•What specific concepts and terms appear most in line with positivism?
Durkheim Videos
Where do the videos seem to represent and/or stand in tension with the readings by Durkheim?
How to the videos represent and/or stand in tension with the readings by Neuarth and Nagel?
Week Four
• How do the selections from Weber, Parsons, Dewy, and Geertz variously promote and confront positivism? Note on each author should include comparative reference to at least one other author.