Saturday, March 20, 2010

What is science?

What is science?
A definition of science and of social science in particular, is fundamental to the understanding of sociology and anthropology as social sciences.

Science is the study of a various phenomena and things in the world.

It is a body of systematized knowledge that shows the operation of general laws.

It makes used of observation, experimentation, analysis, making generalizations, and verifications.

A feature of scientific study is empiricism, which means that generalization is made on the basis of evidence that can be verified though our senses.

The main goals of science are to describe particular things or events in detail and to set up hypothesis and test them.

By these, one is able to test various phenomenal.

Knowledge is arrived at through rigorous and disciplined collection of facts and a logical explanation of them.

Science can be viewed as a way of life when one imbibes the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary in scientific investigation.
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