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TOK: AOK - Human Sciences
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Human Sciences?
"an attempt to reduce the mystery by studying human behavior in a systematic way" (Lagemaat)
"Human scientists try to manipulate the behavior of others for their own benefit" (theoryofknowledge.net)
Bias
- psychology
- economics
- human geography
- anthropology
- sociology
Due to Human Sciences being dependent on the observation of human beings, many subjects and topics are subjective, and therefore may contain certain levels of bias.
Human Beings
The Human Sciences are related to human beings and their way of life.
Debate topics: Nature v. Nurture
Are humans evil or good?
Culture or Country?
"Human behavior makes most sense when it is explained in terms of beliefs and desires, not in terms of volts and grams."
-Steven Pinker
TOK: AOK - Human Sciences
Gloria Yoon, Christine Chung, Andrew Seo
e.g. Polygamy against mormons
anthropology, psychology
- A country is represented by and made up of its own culture.
- People are separated by their own cultural values.
- Human Sciences often try to neglect the cultural differences they recognize every human being to be the same when trying to formulate principles.
- Human Sciences are largely dependent on culture.
- What about multi-cultural countries?