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In the late 1980s, less than 1% of all technologically stored information was digital, and now more than
99% - correct answers UCCSS 1-02: so what did he just rattle down?
Each 2-3 years, as much is added to what we have accumulated since the very beginning - correct
answers UCCSS 1-02: What does it mean that the amount of technologically stored information
"doubles" every 2-3 years?
More people document social reality nowadays - correct answers UCCSS 1-02: What changed?
Every time we (life) came up with a new way of processing information, a major transition happened -
correct answers UCCSS 1-02: What do evolutionary theorists say about the "Major Transitions in
Evolution"
... society as a whole has become indispensably dependent on digital technology - correct answers
UCCSS 1-02: From this social evolutionary perspective, the digital and the biological are merged when:
The other one is about how digital tech changes society and this one is about how digital tech changes
knowledge production - correct answers UCCSS 1-02: What's the difference between his two online
courses?
A small number of interrelated variables - correct answers UCCSS 1-04: The first wave of scientific
advancements focused on :
average of many (rather unknown) variables - correct answers UCCSS 1-04: The second wave of scientific
advancements focused on:
,complexity of modelled with simple averages of a small number of interacting variables - correct
answers UCCSS 1-04: Which of the following statements is NOT true? What we here called problems of:
Societies contain more than 2-3 variables and are too complex to be modelled with aggregate averages -
correct answers UCCSS 1-04: Why is it limiting to study society with the dominant scientific methods
from the 19th and 20th century?
Networks of people and their tech - correct answers UCCSS 1-05: When doing social science, we study
what level of abstraction?
At each of these levels, new rules/laws "emerge" that can be studied - correct answers UCCSS 1-05: How
and in reference to what did he use the word "emergence"?
An ant colony called "Aunt Hillary" - correct answers UCCSS 1-06: Who does the Anteater (a bear-like
animal) communicate with in this metaphor?
How predictable social patterns emerge from a bunch of individual free will - correct answers UCCSS 1-
06: What baffled philosophers like Kant, and sociologists like Durkheim?
the intention of the individual and collective intentions of society - correct answers UCCSS 1-06: What
was a main distinction made by both economists like Smith and political scientists like Rousseau? The
distinction between:
More of something (quantitative difference) can at some point create unexpected emergent
phenomena (qualitative changes) - correct answers UCCSS 1-06: What did the eminent social scientist
Karl Marx mean when he talked about what others called the "basic metaphysical principle of
dialectics"?
How society emerges from individual parts - correct answers UCCSS 1-06:All different kinds of "social
science" disciplines are fundamentally interested in what?
He made empirical observations and from there, developed ideas - correct answers UCCSS 1-07: What
was the main approach toward science adopted by Charles Darwin?
, He developed theory, not based on empirical observations, but on ideas and first principles - correct
answers UCCSS 1-07: What did Albert Einstein do in 1905 and 1915?
Einstein worked on a problem with few varaibles (E=mc^2) and Darwin on one with average tendencies
of many observations - correct answers UCCSS 1-07: How does this relate to the "very short history of
science" of three consecutive waves that we had reviewed?
The digital evidence you leave behind with a digital interaction - correct answers UCCSS 1-07: What is
the so-called "digital footprint" or "digital trace"?
Data=> Analysis => Ideas - correct answers UCCSS 1-07: How do you approach science through
induction?
a directed bet - correct answers UCCSS 1-07: Loosely speaking, what term can you use to explain what a
hypothesis is?
Deduction - correct answers UCCSS 1-07: The method that Albert Einstein spearheaded in the work on
relativity by going from mathematical theories over hypothesis toward observable phenomena is called:
It's very helpful for couples to whack each other with rubber bats to express their resentments - correct
answers UCCSS 1-08: What was NOT the takeaway from this anecdote?
Examine the logical interrelationships among some collection of verbal statements or thoughts - correct
answers UCCSS 1-09: With tongue-in-cheek ('jokingly'), the unconventional name of 'glass of red wine
theorizing' is used here to characterize a very common way to deduce hypotheses in the social sciences.
Which one?
Starting from visionary ideas and then collecting empirical data to test the ideas with hypotheses
Starting from an intellectual conversation with leading experts and then formulating hypotheses -
correct answers UCCSS 1-09: Which approaches are here informally/ jokingly called "glass of red wine
theorizing"? (check all that apply)