Ideology and Science Flashcards
What is a closed belief system?
Is when religion claim that they hold a monopoly of truth and that they view themselves as true representative of god and do not challenge nor tolerate others.
What is a negative of a closed belief system?
Sociologists believe this led to a decline in religious beliefs process called secularisation.
What is an Open belief system?
Religions have open belief system as they adapt to social change in order to remain relevant
What is an example of a closed belief system?
The Azande people - Evan’s pirtarch argued the Azande people of Sudan believe the individuals have no control over witchcraft it lead to problematic accusations
What is science as an ideology?
Science is the pursue of facts of scientific knowledge
What are the core principles of science?
-Science is objective.
-Science studies the impact of cause and effect based on reliable data.
- Impact of science led to technological advanced proving answers to questions over existence.
Who argued on science being an open belief system?
Sir Karl popper
What did sir Karl popper believe?
Sir Karl popper believes that science has become a dominant belief system based on falsification.
What is falsification?
It is the process when scientists attempt to challenge a theory, sometimes if the theory is proven wrong, it can be replaced
Who came up with science being a closed belief system?
Thomas Kuhn
What did Thomas Kuhn argue?
He argued science is closed due to paradigms
What are the ‘CUDOS Norms’, and who came up with it.
Robert K Merton to test their theory they used this method
Communism- scientific knowledge is shared not kept private
Universalism- all scientists are regarded as equal, work should not be challenged
Disinterestedness- scientists should be committed to the truths and publish honest findings no fraud nor subjective bias
Organised Spectism- all scientific knowledge to challenged to scrutiny
