Module 1.3 - Pick a Passage

6/29/2021

Guiding Thought Question: Pick a passage from the reading that you thought interesting, impactful, or that was a key point. Copy in the passage (and add a page number), and then a short (2-3) sentence reflection.

Guiding Inquiry: What distinguishes social science from the natural sciences, and how are they similar?

Todays Learning Objective: Students will be able to explain the similarities and difference between research in the physical and natural sciences by completing an article discussion, and then explaining the characteristics needed from a research through completing a think-pair-share based discussion activity.

13 Comments

Trevor

8/22/2022 01:54:45 pm

A passage that I thought was vital to the general idea was the first full paragraph on page 87. This was vital because it shows examples of how different sciences compare to other sciences. It also shows how different measurements and data can change natural and social sciences and separate it from each other.

Savannah Rosa

8/22/2022 01:57:00 pm

page 3 paragraph 2. explains why the argument that that the observation of social processes is itself a social process is incorrect and why.

Natalie

8/22/2022 01:58:51 pm

Page 85-86 Paragraph 3
I think this paragrph is important because it talks about the argument that people make. It's about how people argue that data gathered from humans can't be replicated or repeated.

sam

8/22/2022 01:59:45 pm

paragraph 11. Everything can be influenced, no matter how "sciencey" it appears. The natural sciences and social sciences are only distinguished based on their subject matter, not their reliability. Though there are many questions of validity for social sciences, they are still research based.

Lucy M

8/23/2022 07:35:05 am

"Thus there are two kinds of uncertainty in science: all systems, no
matter how complex, have an outside from which influences not
included in the theory may penetrate and have major effects; and the
dynamics of complex systems themselves may result in chaos, a
combination of predictable and unpredictable aspects of the process.
Neither of these are unique to social science." I liked this passage because the author makes a valuable argument as to why social and natural sciences are similar. I had a different opinion going in reading this but, the passage made me think otherwise.

Bea

8/23/2022 07:46:50 am

Paragraph 8: The paragraph really explained that you can still analyze things without actually performing an experiment. I kind of think of it as working backward. You might have the results, but you need to examine history or prior circumstances that created those results. For example, if your looking at the current geographic distribution of a given species, you would look at the animal's range in relation to historic geography.

Lamb

8/23/2022 09:03:20 am

“Subjectivity is subjective only from the inside; our theories do not describe how it feels. But subjectively can also be studied objectively. Beliefs and feelings have causes, and are themselves causes.” Page 88.

brookelyn

8/23/2022 09:05:31 am

last paragraph 88-89 It's talking about how social science plays it's self out right in front of you and natural science is deterministic or statistical.

Kaden M

8/23/2022 09:12:35 am

On Pg. 85, in the passages, social science, it more subjective rather than objective like the natural sciences. This is seen in this sentence: "Dialectics is fundamentally different in natural from social science. The difference is said to come from the active participation of human beings in the dynamics of society and especially due to the unique role of subjectivity. It is not very fruitful however to debate whether nature and society are different despite similarities or similar despite differences. Much of the dispute depends on the level of analysis."

Kade

8/23/2022 09:13:09 am

social sciences are important because they can predict actions and results

Deacon

8/23/2022 09:16:00 am

Paragraph 3 page 85. I like how it called out those who would work under the wrong understanding. I love the way it’s wording requires thought.

Ella J

8/23/2022 09:24:19 am

Those who argue that it is point out that the observation of social
processes is itself a social process. They emphasize that social
processes involve the subjectivity of the objects of study, and
sometimes talk casually about "the human factor," which presumably
makes uncertainty inevitable and duplication impossible. (The terms

CNS 9 (1), March, 1998 85

"human factor" or "human condition" are not analytic terms. They do
not refer to the role of labor in our formation, to the use of language or
symbols, or to sexual reproduction. Rather it is most often a term of
exasperation or despair.) They add that in natural science we can design
experiments and observe a large number of repetitions that cancel out
many sources of error. Therefore, they claim, natural science can be
objective in ways that social science cannot. They add that it would be
futile to expect to have predictive equations for society, whereas even
the complex patterns of the earth's atmosphere can, in principle, be
thought of as obeying a very large set of as yet unspecified equations.
Who could even conceive of writing equations that would predict the
emergence and content of post-modernism? -86 This paragraph was important because it pointed out that natural sciences can be predicted based on repetitive data, while historical events in social sciences for the most part can't be predicted based on data.

Emilie

8/23/2022 09:25:39 am

Paragraph 3 page 85-86: talks about how social processes is a social process. And how it’s subjective when it comes to “the human factor” even tho they are not putting in all the roles of social sciences. Where as natural sciences focus on all the roles and the patterns going on to figure out why things are happening

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