Types of Knowledge and Human Sciences: A Comprehensive Overview

Types of knowledge:

• Intuitive: acquired through direct experience with things, objects, people.
• Empirical: based on experience; does not explain reality.
• Magic relig: built on beliefs and supernatural ideas.
• Philosophical: guide for human beings in the search for knowing.
• Scientific: produced with a method of study for observing, analyzing, and reflecting on reality.

Human beings:

Characterized by reason and consciousness of their acts, with a natural desire to know.

Formal sciences:

Study conceptual entities like numbers, figures, and concepts.

Factual sciences:

Study natural events, including natural and social phenomena.

Social sciences:

Study human social relationships and institutions.

Methods of sociology:

Main methods include positivism, comparative, historical, and structural functionalism.

Physiocracy:

Wealth source is nature, economics depends on nature.

Classical economics:

Search for profit drives businesses to produce more.

Scientific socialism:

Wealth source acquired through its value.

Neo-classical:

Productive factors: work, land, and capital.

Political science:

Obtaining idealist objectives in relation to government and governors.

History:

Narration and exposition of past events.

Anthropology:

Investigates how human beings have produced their culture.

Social phenomena:

External influences on living organisms.

Political science involves teaching, researching, public administration, coordination of institutions, design of political campaigns, and political analysis.