Chapter Four Vocabulary

3. Method focusing on evidence that can not easily be quantified. ex: cultural mannerisms and personal impressions
7. That which enables each discipline to maintain its identity and have a distinctive overall perspective.
10. Relying on each discipline's unique perspective on reality to classify phenomena.
11. Studying phenomena separately and that knowledge can be combined into an understanding of the phenomenon as a whole.
12. The system of knowledge specialties called disciplines.
13. Defining elements of a discipline's perspective.
14. A comprehensive explanation embedded in a culture that is created and reinforced by power structures and is not to be trusted.

1. The linking of all phenomena to particular discipline.
2. Phenomenon of boundary crossing and borrowing from disciplines.
4. Enduring aspects of human existence that are of interest to scholars and are susceptible to scholarly description and explanation.
5. A discipline's unique view of reality in a general sense.
6. Broad categories of related disciplines that include natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the applied and performing arts.
8. Disagreement among a discipline's practitioners over the defining elements of the discipline.
9. Method emphasizing that evidence can be expressed numerically.