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# [[#Experiment|Experiment]] ([[test]] of all of the above)

This can be called the [[hypothetico-deductive method]]. These activities do not describe all that scientists do ([[#Scientific method and the practice of science |see below]]). The 4-step method described above is often used in [[education]].

<sup id="fn_1_back">[[#fn_1|1]]</sup>.

[[#Science as a communal activity|Science is a social activity]]. The process is subject to evaluation by the scientists directly involved, or by the scientific community, at any or every stage. A scientist's theory or proposal is accepted only after it has become known to others (usually via publication, ideally [[peer review]]ed publication) and criticised. See the [[list of unsolved problems]] in [[science]], for example.

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** [[Structuralism]] -- [[post-structuralism]] -- [[deconstruction]]-- [[post-modernism]] -- [[Bruno_Latour|Latour, Bruno]] -- [[Scientism]]

*[[Science policy]] -- [[Sociology of knowledge]] -- [[Science studies]] -- [[Conflicting theories]] -- [[Scientific literature]] -- [[List of topics (scientific method)]]

==Notes==

<cite id="fn_1">[[#fn_1_back|Note 1:]]</cite>Teachers using [[inquiry education|inquiry]] as a teaching method sometimes teach a slightly modified version of the scientific method in which an inquiry, a "Question", is substituted for the first step of the scientific method: "Characterization, Observation, Definition, etc.".

== External links ==

* [http://www.freeinquiry.com/intro-to-sci.html An Introduction to Science: Scientific Thinking and the Scientific Method] by Steven D. Schafersman.