Deck 2: Understanding Culture and Research

Question 1

What branch of philosophy is concerned with the origin, nature, limits, methods, and justification of human knowledge?

Answer 1

Epistemology

Question 2

Sir Isaac Newton developed a set of principles for scientific investigation. This approach is still used by social science researchers today. What is it?

Answer 2

Mechanical World Paradigm

Question 3

What is the message conveyed by The Parable of the Elephant?

Answer 3

A whole is more than the sum of its parts; we cannot know the whole by examining its parts (or something similarly stated)

Question 4

What is the scientific idea that matter and energy can only be changed from ordered to disordered, usable to unusable, or available to unavailable?

Question 5

Why do postmodernists distrust reality?

Question 6

In what ways do postmodernists see our world as disordered?

Question 7

What is a metanarratrive?

Question 8

Draw the four step communication model presented in Chapter 2.

Question 9

What two ethical principles should guide communication research?

Question 10

Matching
Note to students: None of the items below will be used more than once; some items may not be used at all.

-Usually contains several elements, including message and medium.

A) Epistemology
B) Mechanical World Paradigm
C) Entropy law
D) Parable of the Elephant
E) Metanarratives
F) Agenda setting
G) Skeptical postmodernism
H) Informed consent
I) Positivism
J) Affirmative postmodernism
K) A communication model
L) Contemporary technology

Question 11

Matching
Note to students: None of the items below will be used more than once; some items may not be used at all.

-The notion that matter and energy move from an ordered to a disordered state.

A) Epistemology
B) Mechanical World Paradigm
C) Entropy law
D) Parable of the Elephant
E) Metanarratives
F) Agenda setting
G) Skeptical postmodernism
H) Informed consent
I) Positivism
J) Affirmative postmodernism
K) A communication model
L) Contemporary technology

Question 12

Matching
Note to students: None of the items below will be used more than once; some items may not be used at all.

-Present social science research thinking that only science can reveal truth and reality.

A) Epistemology
B) Mechanical World Paradigm
C) Entropy law
D) Parable of the Elephant
E) Metanarratives
F) Agenda setting
G) Skeptical postmodernism
H) Informed consent
I) Positivism
J) Affirmative postmodernism
K) A communication model
L) Contemporary technology

Question 13

Matching
Note to students: None of the items below will be used more than once; some items may not be used at all.

-Concerned with the origin, nature, limits, and methods of human knowledge.

A) Epistemology
B) Mechanical World Paradigm
C) Entropy law
D) Parable of the Elephant
E) Metanarratives
F) Agenda setting
G) Skeptical postmodernism
H) Informed consent
I) Positivism
J) Affirmative postmodernism
K) A communication model
L) Contemporary technology

Question 14

Matching
Note to students: None of the items below will be used more than once; some items may not be used at all.

-According to postmodernists, a major contributor to disorder in today's culture.

A) Epistemology
B) Mechanical World Paradigm
C) Entropy law
D) Parable of the Elephant
E) Metanarratives
F) Agenda setting
G) Skeptical postmodernism
H) Informed consent
I) Positivism
J) Affirmative postmodernism
K) A communication model
L) Contemporary technology

Question 15

Matching
Note to students: None of the items below will be used more than once; some items may not be used at all.

-Developed by Isaac Newton, this became the model that dominated research in the modern period.

A) Epistemology
B) Mechanical World Paradigm
C) Entropy law
D) Parable of the Elephant
E) Metanarratives
F) Agenda setting
G) Skeptical postmodernism
H) Informed consent
I) Positivism
J) Affirmative postmodernism
K) A communication model
L) Contemporary technology

Question 16

Matching
Note to students: None of the items below will be used more than once; some items may not be used at all.

-The view that, although contemporary culture has problems, there is reason to be hopeful and optimistic.

A) Epistemology
B) Mechanical World Paradigm
C) Entropy law
D) Parable of the Elephant
E) Metanarratives
F) Agenda setting
G) Skeptical postmodernism
H) Informed consent
I) Positivism
J) Affirmative postmodernism
K) A communication model
L) Contemporary technology

Question 17

Matching
Note to students: None of the items below will be used more than once; some items may not be used at all.

-The ways people have of organizing and deriving meaning from experience.

A) Epistemology
B) Mechanical World Paradigm
C) Entropy law
D) Parable of the Elephant
E) Metanarratives
F) Agenda setting
G) Skeptical postmodernism
H) Informed consent
I) Positivism
J) Affirmative postmodernism
K) A communication model
L) Contemporary technology

Question 18

Matching
Note to students: None of the items below will be used more than once; some items may not be used at all.

-The right of a research participant to know the project's purpose and to agree to be part of it.

A) Epistemology
B) Mechanical World Paradigm
C) Entropy law
D) Parable of the Elephant
E) Metanarratives
F) Agenda setting
G) Skeptical postmodernism
H) Informed consent
I) Positivism
J) Affirmative postmodernism
K) A communication model
L) Contemporary technology

Question 19

Matching
Note to students: None of the items below will be used more than once; some items may not be used at all.

-The view that fragmentation, disintegration, and meaningless characterize contemporary culture.

A) Epistemology
B) Mechanical World Paradigm
C) Entropy law
D) Parable of the Elephant
E) Metanarratives
F) Agenda setting
G) Skeptical postmodernism
H) Informed consent
I) Positivism
J) Affirmative postmodernism
K) A communication model
L) Contemporary technology