POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Postpositivism, Ethnocentrism, Hermeneutics
24 May 2016
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Focuses on the importance of non-tangible things at foundation (ideas) Positivism reality exists independent of the observer (most of us are this) O job of someone with this ideology to find objective data. Post-positivist no reality out there, what is or is not a fact is a subjective decision that occurs in the mind. Post-modernists challenge us to look at the foundational assumptions and decide whether they are valid or not. Ethnocentrism (bias in their analysis) according to the realists the most important factor in ir is the westphalian state, which started in europe and spread around the world, product of a western way of thinking. O divides the world in a very specific way that has implications (creating. O this way of thinking leads to colonialism. O this acceptance of state by the realists has many implications. O realists accept this assumption of the state, don"t question a different way of living.
