ECH3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Epistemological Rupture, Postpositivism, Post-Structuralism
1 Nov 2016
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Addressing one of the gaps research hypothesis. Statement of relationship between independent variable and dependent variable. How do these things relate to each other. How can we relate game theory or realism and explain it"s relevance to the topic theoretical framework research design and methodology. Isolate a particular outcome of a phenomenon. Not explaining every single details, but offers usually offer predictive capacities. Try to predict an outcome theory is not a law. Claims and beliefs how the world operates a) important actors (state, militias, individuals) b) expected behaviours (rationality, motivations, choices) What motivates actors and their decisions c) ontology and epistemology. When and where the theory is expected to operate. Must be a social science definition, not from a dictionary. Can use theories from all types of streams (economics, sociology, criminology, political science) Definitions and concepts (violence, genocide, massacre, terrorism, ethnicity, civil war: epistemology. Philosophical study of the nature of being or of the reality.
