POL208Y1 Lecture : Lecture 1 and 2

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This lecture introduced students to key concepts related to theoretical thinking in the social sciences: Hypothesis: golfing countries never go to war with eachother . Define golfing/non-golfing nations: 1 courses per million of population. Check the war involvement of golfing nations: never on opposite sides of a war. Fewer gold courses in 1982) and northern ireland. Paradigm: a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated. The importance of causal mechanisms (to avoid the dangers of spurious correlation) Testing a theory and the importance of falsification as a basis for theoretical refinement and progress. A way of organizing and simplifying variables to gain explanatory power. The decision to drop the atomic bomb on hiroshima as an example. These are the types of explanations we find in the individual level. We think here about roles instead of people.

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