SISU-105 FA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Liberal Feminism, Postmodern Feminism, Difference Feminism

• School: American University
• Department: SISU - INT'L SERVICE UNDERGRADUATE
• Course: SISU-105 FA3
• Professor: Tuomi

Document Summary

Sisu-105 - lecture notes - 2/13 social theorists. Realism and liberalism are overly, preoccupied with state"s material self-interest. Sates are also guarded by social and relational factors: ideas, norms, and identities. These factors can become stable, but are never fixed. Wendt: anarchy is what states make of it security dilemma not inevitable state"s response to anarchy depends on historical, social processes. States share expectations about appropriate behavior (e. g. norm against use of nuclear weapons) Logic of appropriateness rather than logic of consequences also determines behavior. Concentrate on the domestic and individual levels of analysis. Social theories empirically discover and reveal how the institutions and practices and identities that people take as natural, given, or matter of fact are, in fact, the product of human agency, of social construction. (hopf) Types: peace studies, constructivism, elements of marxism, and gender studies. Broad conception of social relations at all levels of analysis.