Summary Of Newman And The Article By Babbie

In Chapter 3 of Newman and the article by Babbie Concepts, Indicators and Reality I learned about how you can never really “know” anything, indicators of concepts never can fully describe and validate concepts, concepts are constructed by society and reality implies that there is one truth which there never is. In essence nothing really exists without society making it so and even this is arguable. Newman says emphasizes reality as being constructed when he says, “Reality whether in the form of causal observations or formal research, is a human creation.”(p. 79).
Similarly, Babbie furthers this point by using the example of religiosity. Bobbie poses the question of does religiosity exists and how do we know it. He concludes, “No empirical