Science and Religion as a BS Flashcards
1
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Merton
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believes science is open: Communism Universalism Disinterestness Organised scepticism
2
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Kuhn
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Believes science is an open belief system as it set on paradigms
e.g gravity, evolution etc.
3
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Popper
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Believes that science is an open system due to its deductive approach and ‘falsification’
prove all other theories wrong
e.g all swans are white
4
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Woolgar ‘little green men”
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Believes that science is a social construct
e.g star “pulsar”, little evidence to support, however all believed
every societies definition of a ‘fact’ is different
5
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Azande Witchcraft, Evans Pritchard
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closed belief system !
every answer was witchcraft, e.g sickness, failure
no matter what other evidence to disprove
6
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Berger
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science is a social construct
7
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Giddens
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in a pm society, scientific facts are fabricated and modern science is not objective
