Depicting belief to be "of the nature of a habit ", Pierce rejects what he calls the method of tenacity, noting that numerous people lean toward satisfaction to truth and will maintain a strategic distance from uncertainty once they have settled upon a consoling belief; accordingly, periodic conviction is liable to coherent error. ... He notes, nonetheless, that government (and other social foundations) at last commands truth as indicated by it engages instead of to the respectability of rationale; subsequently this methodology, which he calls the strategy for power, inescapably prompts its ow...

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Peregrine, however, notes that Harris' definition is inherently narrow and does not encompass the majority of anthropological research, thus by Harris' definition and Peregrine's analysis it can be deduced that anthropology cannot be considered a scientific discipline (Peregrine, 2012: 593). ... Moses notes that while a scientific approach is useful when considering large datasets and extrapolating significance, a humanistic approach takes patterns obtained from scientific research and explores them in more distinct, culturally-textured contexts (Moses, 2012:594). ...

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The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, though unconventional, can be called a true experiment. Designed to test the psychology of the prison environment, the experiment simulated a prison in which subjects were randomly assigned the role of either "prisoner" or "guard." The simulation produced dramati...

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