POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brexit

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2103
• Professor: Kevin Mc Millan

Document Summary

Simplification (about the reality around them) they involve abstraction: not necessarily describing the world but focusing on specific characteristics and abstracting them away, not describing in detail but abstracting in certain principles that the world seems to operate into. Theory tends to be any kind of abstract and systematic thinking around any subject. We are constantly basing our actions and the things we do in our lives based on underlying principles on how things work, maybe we are all theorists. No its not the same as academic theory, but maybe we do so in an unconscious way. Theories are the basis for all the things we do. )t"s important to do this do when they"re threatened and what they do when they"re scared, they have this kind of theory that they"re working on, doesn"t it make sense to try to figure out.