keywords

Question 1

beliefs

Answer 1

-ideas ab things we hold to be true

Question 2

science

Answer 2

• study of the world through gathering empirical or observable evidence

Question 3

ideology

Answer 3

• ideas , values, beliefs provide a meaning of the interpreting the world and which represents the interests of a particular social group

Question 4

ideological state apparatus

Answer 4

-agencies that spread the dominant ideology e.g ED system

Question 5

patriarchal ideology

Answer 5

-sets of an ideas, which justifies and supports power of men

Question 6

scientism

Answer 6

-ideology that believes sciences provides true understanding of the world

Question 7

empirical evidence

Answer 7

-observable evidence collected in physical or social world

Question 8

objectivity

Answer 8

• non biased and value free

Question 9

value freedom

Answer 9

beliefs and values of researcher doesn’t affect research

Question 10

paradigm

Answer 10

-framework of scientific , laws , concepts and methods rhat science operates within (kuhn)

Question 11

religion

Answer 11

belief in existence of supernatural entity

Question 12

open belief system

Answer 12

-open to questioning and scurnity

Question 13

closed belief system

Answer 13

-cannot be disproved as they based on faith and beliefs not empirical evidence

Question 14

modernity

Answer 14

• period of society after industrial revolution , characterised by scientific advances

Question 15

disenchantment

Answer 15

• process by which magical and mystical elements of life are eroded and replaced by science

Question 16

fundamentalism

Answer 16

-return to literal meaning of religious tests and behaviour

Question 17

meta narrative

Answer 17

one big theory tries to explain everything

Question 18

secularisation

Answer 18

process whereby religion and religious thinking becomes less important and influential