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Outline on the Ways We Understand the World
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What are some ways we understand the world/ our existence? 
 
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a. Common Sense
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b. Religion
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     Review:  World Religions:  some have different ways of understanding
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c. Tradition / authority:  We understand the world based on what others traditionally believe
     & on what others 'force' us to believe 
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d. Emotion
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e. Science is the  dominant approach to understanding reality in modern industrial societies 
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     The Scientific Method
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     The Social Sciences
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     The Sociological Imagination
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Common sense & science:  very similar
     Science is simply more well reviewed than Common Sense
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Understanding culture:  we usually use all of the methods above, except science
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Our way of understanding' determines our actions/behavior
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