PHL * K101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Theories Of Political Behavior, Social Reality, Presupposition
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Voting behavior/data- voting is an action because it is in accordance with. Not looking for mere descriptive value of various methods- voting rules. numbers, people who had been arrested, etc. If all you have to work with is a series of things that have happened, you don"t really have an advancement of knowledge. You look for why people vote- why the vote, how they vote, how and why do people register for a party, etc. When saying why someone took the action they did, we assess actions now, where beliefs and desires must be involved again. If we look into the why of what happened, we are engaged in the meaning of what happened. subject to dispute. The moment you start talking about meaning, you are interpreting and are. We must figure out how to account for motivation. We say there are properties of individuals that are correlated with things they do.
