POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Social Fact, Western Family Foods, Marriage
11 Jun 2013
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Essay question posted on blackboard tomorrow ; 1 of 2 choices, no outside research needed, 5 pages max. Essence of constructionism is about human consciousness in international life, focus on ideas, norms, knowledge, culture, stresses these elements in the making of international politics. Emphasizes rule of collective understanding, considers that human interaction is shaped primary by ideas and not simply by material factors. These ideas are shared among us, and these shared beliefs construct the interests and identities of actors, focuses on something called social facts . Social facts; exists because people collectively believe they exists; e. g. money not just paper, social fact is that it is. , figurtary instrument (all trust that this piece of paper is worth something and so does people around you) Constructionism is about social construction of reality, about the transformation of international politics through social facts key take for constructionism for international politics.
