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Religion, science and ideology
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Religion, science and ideology:Religion:
-answers to unanswerable questions
-morals (behaviour)
-hope
-purpose in life (why)
Science:
-how things work
-cause and effect
Ideology:
-teaching what our ‘role’ is in society
-society focused (‘organisation’)
-hierarchies/levels
The impact of science:
-medicine and disease
-nukes
-environmental science
-transport
-knowledge
-technology advancements
-mass production
-social media
-increased independence for women (contraception/introduction into the workplace)
Science negative impacts:
-Cyber bullying
-mass production
-human trafficking
-online grooming
-war
-fraud
-drugs
-extinction -
Science as an open belief system(Popper):
-Scientific theories open to scrutiny
-falsificationism- scientists set out to try and disprove other theories
-Knowles from science based on evidence (tangible)
-scientific understanding is cumulative (builds/grows)
-no theory is taken as true or definite (can always be questioned/criticised)
Merton- Cudos norms:
-Aimed to explain the growth of science in the last few years
-science can only thrive if it receives support from other institutions within that society (e.g.in
Calvinism technological inventions to support work or economic support through invention of
weaponry
-Cudos norms- a set of norms/ethos needed for scientists to work in a way that works for society
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