PSCI 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: World Politics, Nationstates, Critical Thinking
16 Dec 2015
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Sometimes a question just leads to more questions. People can"t move freely because states can decide who may and may not legally live within their borders. In the study of political science and international relations, the word state refers to what we normally refer to as countries. States possess sovereignty" (political authority) over their own. But as we will discuss more in week 4, the term state" is. This is especially true when we start to talk about nations" in. We must ask, what is a nation?" and what is the relationship problematic. How have these two things come to be related in this way?". Asking these kinds of questions in other words, thinking critically about the world helps us to see that our current world is neither natural nor inevitable. Our world is made by us; this is what social scientists mean when they say that it is socially constructed".
