PACS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Brittleness, Ossification, Identity Crisis

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Peace And Conflict Studies
• Course: PACS 10
• Professor: Zook, D C

Document Summary

Pacs 10 lecture 8 moral politics: constructivism as a theory of peace and justice. Individuals construct value-based frameworks to interpret their experiences. Interpretive frameworks are necessary to make sense of events and experiences (they occur naturally) Since social interaction is an influential process, over time, interpretive frameworks tend to converge on specific points. Social norms tend to create determinative structures that filter new information into dominant frameworks. Frameworks become rigid over time, making dramatic and abrupt changes difficult. Paradigm shifts: when existing structures can no longer explain new information. Example: discovery that earth revolves around sun. Frameworks are content neutral and can be good (human rights) or bad (genocide) We stop trying to learn new things.