POLI 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Value Judgment
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Important to address in standard scientific procedures. Claim: state policies can influence relationships between different ethnicities. Transnistria is under soviet rule, but basarbia became part of romania. Soviet government is pro-semitic, but romania is anti-semitic. After nazi rule, a research showed that the transnistrians are less likely to take part in nazi prosecutions and more likely to protect jewish friends. Later data shows that attacks weren"t only against the rich. Maybe bessarabia is always more anti-semitic than ukrainians. However, there are evidences that ukrainians outside of transnistria are deeply anti- Since testimonies are years after the holocaust, some of the data might be skewed. Randomly picked out survivor testimonies of acts of discrimination against the jews in. The richest 10% of canadian own 48% of national wealth. Descriptive questions and claims address the way the world is (or was) As opposed to stating a situation (like in descriptive claims) Causal questions and claims address the effect and cause of things.
