Conceptualization of social sciences u1

It is the kind of knowledge you acquire through senses, by direct experience with objects and living beings. This type of knowledge is not subject to doubt:

• Scientific knowledge

• Philosophical knowledge

• empirical knowledge

• intuitive knowledge

It is the knowledge based on experience. It has a higher degree of generality than intuitive knowledge, but does not follow any study method, or refers to causes of things. Usually, it is based on beliefs and opinions of the social group in which one lives:

• empirical

• philosophical

• scientific

• intuitive

It is the knowledge based on beliefs or faith that comes from books, prophets, divinities or sacred objects. This knowledge is accepted as it is without questions.

• intuitive

• philosophical

• scientific

• magical religious

Empirical sciences are the ones that study social and natural facts.

• True

• False

It is the one generated from a reflection and it offers explanations using reason and rational arguments. It is a general knowledge that creates categories and concepts and does not simply accept knowledge but questions it constantly.

• intuitive

• philosophical

• empirical

• magical religious

Knowledge that is constantly seeking for laws and principles explaining phenomena through authentication or experiment. Knowledge is obtained by applying an organized method: the scientific method.

• intuitive

• philosophical

• scientific

• magical religious

“the set of systematized knowledge that is made on any field of nature, society and human thought which is held by rational or verifiable justification"

• method

• science

• classification

• knowledge

Its study objects are abstractions that can explain some phenomena. This refers to:

• Formal science

• empirical science

The _____ refers to the field of reality that is being investigated and ____ refers to steps carried out for the study.

• method / object of study

• object of study / method

• science / hypothesis

The ______ method studies two or more objects with the same or different characteristics.

• scientific

• comparative

• qualitative

• quantitative