Epistemology

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Epistemology
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the most significant value of knowledge of
research methods is that it permits a critical
evaluation of what passes for knowledge when we
and others develop social theory.

• --Adler and Clark (19994)

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Methods of Knowing

• 1. Authority
• 2. Personal Experience
• 3. Scientific Method

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Review of Importance of Assumptions and
Epistemology
Assumptions underlay Epistemology
Epistemology forms the basis for what we know.
What we know frames how we look at the world.
How we look at the world influences how we act
within it.