Social Science - Audio
What are the Social Sciences? One definition is that they are specialised systematic forms of knowledge, which leads the question: What is knowledge? Through discussions with powerful and responsible social scientists, the tracks on this album focus on the history of social science, how they are shaping the world as we know it, and the differences between scientific and religious knowledge. The material forms part of the course DD100, An introduction to the social sciences: understanding social change.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2009
Social Sciences - what are they?
Two social scientists explain what attracts them to the subject, and explore the differences between 'knowing' and 'doing' social science.
00:08:18 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
Development of the social sciences
How the social sciences developed in response to challenges to traditional systems of belief.
00:07:24 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
Complementary approaches
Comparing social and natural sciences, the need for both perspectives for full understanding.
00:05:30 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
Influence of Social Science
The impact the study of social science has had since the 19th century.
00:07:49 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
Knowledge - what is it?
The relative status of different kinds of knowledge, scientific knowledge and its supposed objectivity. The interrelationship of objectivity and subjectivity.
00:10:25 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
Religious knowledge
Exploring the God hypothesis to see if it is the best way to explain the circumstances of life, using various objective and even subjective forms of evidence.
00:08:45 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
Origins of knowledge
The action inherent in knowledge production, for example in religious knowledge. The privilege system of different kinds of knowledge.
00:06:13 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
Changes in knowledge
Changes in the volume and storage of knowledge that is being produced. Changes in the status of knowledge, for example the natural sciences and conventional medicine.
00:07:13 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
Expert knowledge
The nature of expert knowledge and the power and exclusivity inherent in it. Decline of faith in the expertise of doctors, people using the internet to treat themselves.
00:05:36 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
Knowledge and trade
Financial motivation affects the kind of knowledge that is studied and produced and llimits the alternative knowledge that can be produced.
00:07:48 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
Knowledge and social science
Social construction of the social sciences, the relationship between the natural sciences and the social sciences and the implications of this in the development of the social sciences.
00:08:04 |
Wed 11 Mar 2009
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