POL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Family Values, Nuclear Family
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Women were more associated with democrats, anti-war. Men swing republican because the democrats were looking out for the interests of men and minorities, not white men. Gop is concerned with middle age, older people, not young people. Traditional family was mother, father, 2. 5 children, dog named spot. Transmission of parents" political ideals onto children is very significant, though the effects have diminished since the 1950s. Scientific standards for good theories parsimonious explanation general predictions. We want to explain as much as we can with the least amount of info. Relationship btwn assumptions about human nature and predictions substantive and logical consistency about what will happen should be logical precision testable and disconfirmable. Freud"s ideas were very interesting, but they are difficult/impossible to test or prove scientifically. Core assumptions about human nature, market, and government. Doesn"t have to be left vs. right . Republicans think drug problems are due to moral problems, not economics, addiction, mental health.
