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Introduction

What is Science?
Science is both Content and a Process.

• Content:
  A body of known facts and relationships, the kinds that learned in your science classes such as biology, psychology, sociology, geology, etc.
  
  
• Process:
  An activity that includes systematic ways of gathering data, determining relationships, and offering explanations.

The Process of Science
Five Research Methods

• Experimental
• Correlation
• Natural Observation
• Survey
• Case Study

...these are some methods that different disciplines such as anthropology, psychology, sociology, geology, and biology share. It is these common approaches to learning about the world that make them sciences.

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