POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Cosmopolitanism, Utopia

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Social constructivists regard society as understood in sociology, as a set of social norms about what is appropriate behavior. This adds order, but of a very different kind. For constructivists, norms are not just a rationalization of selfish behavior as in realism, or a tool for setting standards that allow mutually beneficial cooperative behavior as in liberalism. States define their interests on the basis of what is socially appropriate, on what is considered right and wrong. Norms are not a means to an ends. They define what are ends are in the first place. Society is about self-restraint in deference to collective goal. There are certain things that we simply cannot do. Social norms are intersubjective, that is they are shared among actors, whether they be individuals or states. Society provides the function of defining appropriate behavior by providing identities.

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