POLS 110 Lecture 2: pols 110 lecture 2

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Eleanor Mac Donald

Document Summary

What we see as political is constantly shifting and changing: what does it mean to study politics, how do we study politics? (cid:224) approaches, normative establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behavior: negative sanctions to enforce normative behavior, how should we live together, what should democracy look like, how should justice work, this is how political theory generally was written the great thinkers tried to figure out how to best live, to organize society, etc, how study was way back when". Empirical based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic: they provided considerable empirical evidence to support their argument: what does democracy look like, how does justice work, how do we live together, the only things we know can be known through our senses, our observations, we should study the facts, things that are measurable (only, examples of questions with an empirical answer;