POLSCI 2I03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Brute Fact, Epistemic Community, Social Fact
13 Dec 2016
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Theories- reminder a theory is a simplifying device that allows you decide which facts matter and which do not. particular lenses worn particular things seen pg. 3. Or more complicated some facts out there are our ideas recognize and shape the facts and back nd forth- is it influenced by observing and knowledge of humans. Interests ideas identities interests national interests in defines of power. Marxism focuses on ideas getting people to think certain ways. Identities who we are what people believe and what their values are final tier. Major priority: formal organization and arrangement of concepts, more than complexity or detail. Neo-realism neo liberalism overlaps each other have a lot in common look at the system the basic approach similar. Marxism and post colonialism- have a lot in common overlap each other- have and havenots marginalization class and race issues power relations. Constructivism shares with neoliberalism but less with neorealism.
