{"id":142,"date":"2021-09-04T15:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/?p=142"},"modified":"2021-09-04T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:26:30","slug":"research-topic-epistemological-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/2021\/09\/04\/research-topic-epistemological-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Topic – Epistemological Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Epistemological Crisis<\/strong> (E-Crisis) is seen as the non-functioning of society. A recent demonstration of this can be seen in the pandemic (COVID is a Hoax vs COVID is real and dangerous). Rather than a series of discrete instances, it is my contention the E-Crisis has become the dominant feature of society (specifically in the United States), and perhaps more controversial, is that the E-Crisis is the inevitable and intrinsic character of epistemology itself.<\/p>\n

Is the E-Crisis real or just a figment of my own (and other researchers’) imagination?<\/b><\/p>\n

Rather than assuming the E-Crisis exists, it is important to establish what it even is, what the characteristics of it are, and if it is something other than just a theoretical construct which I (and others) are pouring our collective anxieties into.<\/p>\n

I have no idea what my “Unit of Analysis” is. Ostensibly, it is the “people of the United States”. The United States – because that is where I am currently living and where I perceive the E-Crisis the most viscerally. People – because the characteristics of the E-Crisis are, in the end, discretely exhibited by individuals. While I think there is social momentum which is intimately involved in the E-Crisis, it would perhaps be less noticeable (and impactful?) if it wasn’t for the expressions by and through individuals.<\/p>\n

Rationale<\/strong><\/p>\n

My perception is that I live in a fundamentally broken society (The United States of America) as perfectly demonstrated these past months by 600,000+ people dying from COVID in what is arguably the richest country the world has ever known. While I believe other countries \/ societies are similarly broken, I live here in the United States, and so I feel that impact more. (I could make the assertion the US has a stronger global impact than potentially other countries do, and so the focus on the US becomes one of global importance, but as a resident of the US, my interest is honestly more ego-centric).<\/p>\n

While I think an argument could be made that the United States is simply exhibiting classical signs of a failing empire, I sense there is more to it. The impact of the existential threat of Global Climate Change (GCC) heightens the global costs and urgency of not just a failing empire, but a failed ideology.<\/p>\n

We are all Nero while Rome is burning (Yes, I know it isn’t ‘true’, but I think the metaphor is useful).<\/p>\n

As I have alluded to, I believe there is empirical evidence (GCC and response\/outcome of the COVID pandemic) that demonstrates some kind of crisis, but it is difficult to imagine addressing that crisis without understanding what it is.<\/p>\n

“You cannot solve a\u00a0problem<\/em>\u00a0until you acknowledge that you have one and take responsibility for solving it.”\u00a0Zig Ziglar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, I hope to ‘discover’ whether or not the E-Crisis is even real and if it is as important as I think it is.<\/p>\n

… Kenny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Epistemological Crisis (E-Crisis) is seen as the non-functioning of society. A recent demonstration of this can be seen in the pandemic (COVID is a Hoax vs COVID is real and dangerous). Rather than a series of discrete instances, it is my contention the E-Crisis has become the dominant feature of society (specifically in the United States), and perhaps more controversial,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178445,14354],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-project","category-research-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}