Assumptions

 

Assumptions: things that are accepted as certain.

Assumptions mostly reflect epistemology and also captures elements of metaphysics, ideology, and ethics. Epistemology is the study of the nature and basis of knowledge that answers certain questions (i.e. what is truth?)

Every discipline has a different assumption about the natural and human worlds. Assumptions of the Social Sciences are that there is some order to society. These assumptions differ from those of the natural sciences because of differences between the phenomena each studies. The natural sciences study the natural world where behavior is fixed by evolution.

The assumptions of social history is that traditional history ignored the working class, the poor, minorities, women, etc. My major which is Women’s Studies, would go under this assumption as well.

Find Your Feet.Malawian farmers.November 12, 2007.

Repko, Allen F., Rick Szostak, and Michelle Phillips Buchberger. Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

 

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