POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Social Identity Theory, Death Drive, Human Nature
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First image: explanation involving one individual or characteristics generalizable across all individuals. According to waltz, first image is human nature. Nowadays, it is: explanations involving one individual or characteristics amongst all individuals. First image analogy: opening up someone"s head: can see what makes us human; what it is about certain ways in which we react that make us human, can also understand what makes us unique. Finding for examples that certain partisans have different responses to situations. These explanations fit with the first image: human nature, optimists. Human nature is good, it is lack of understanding, propaganda, or cycles of violence that lead it astray Dealing with situation where education, history, propaganda that is responsible for our deviation to violence. If only we could have exchange program, better communication; we would then understand the good nature of humans allowing us to break the cycle of violence and enable cooperation: pessimists.
