POLI 100 Lecture 1: Chapters 1-3
24 Jan 2018
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Aristotle"s classi catory schema: chain reaction/cycle that is unavoidable. Boundaries of the political (state, society, and the international community: sovereignty means that it has the highest authority in the state. What are the e ects of globalization on the state"s sovereignty: leftwich"s de nition (check on that) Politics is di erent as it exists on many levels. Three types of political analysis: they are not isolated, as they are implied in each other. Central focus on the discipline prior to mid-20th century. Asks value questions based on value systems: what should we want, how ought we to live together, what is the good life, empirical: focuses on observable phenomena. Emerges in the 1950s with the rise of behaviorism. Identify observable phenomena in order to establish what is rather than what ought to be . Envisions itself as objective as it is modeled largely on hard or natural sciences: semantic: concerned with meaning.
