Key Concepts Flashcards
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Civil society
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is usually taken to refer to a range of private institutions existing between the individual and the state.
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Positivism
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a philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism.
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Behaviouralism
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It stresses the importation of the scientific method in the study of social phenomena.
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Ontology
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Ontology is the philosophical study of being. ( what is there to know?)
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Epistemology
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the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.
