POLI 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Practice Theory, Outlast, Eyelid

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 449
• Professor: Vincent Pouliot

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T means therefore, b/c means because, ppl means people, gov"t means government. Ask prof about the difference between practice theory vs constructivism!! Eg. in classical greek diplomacy, here are 3-4 basic diplomatic features. Then develop each of those features one by one. Illustrate with some empirical historical evidence from the reading. Can get ideas for references in the footnotes in the required reading! Today, we will settle down on 1 theoretical lens that we will really focus on/work on in this class. T we will look at diplomacy through a particular perspective in this class: practice theory: practice theory 101 (from the adler and pouloit reading) Social theory is theory of the first order; t practice theory is a theory about theories (eg. realism, structuralism, etc) (t a theory of the second order) T practices outlast the act itself by creating a social infrastructure for the way that we behave afterward.