POLS 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Multivariate Analysis, System On A Chip, Productive Forces
9 Feb 2014
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We are part of a community or. We make intentional decisions, not instinctive ones > governed by politics (rules and regulations), seeking the good life : rules=what to do/not do, debate over them is normative discourse. Likewise when gov"ts make laws, they discuss the ends > certain beliefs lead to different types of gov"t: normative topics/issues (right vs. wrong) embedded within gov"t : liberty, justice, equality, common good etc. Terms mean diff. things to diff. people, rules of good reasoning & need for getting along help clear the gray areas: politics as social science, an empirical method in explaining politics, change from normative due to: Dissatisfaction of how the philosophical approach explained political world. They may both be dependant variables being influenced by a third independent variable or. The independent and dependant variables are really switched and not what we first thought they were. Human life is overdetermined- generalizations of if this, therefore that are unlikely.
