POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Social Fact, Social Forces, Linguistic Turn
1 Mar 2014
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Pol 2103 e - intro to international relations & global politics - joseph roman - 06 jan. 22. It"s all about ideas and how they affect people"s social realities. The other thing important is culture is important b/c it creates something called inter-subjectivity, actors/jurors will tell them what they"re doing, and why they"re doing them in a certain context. Culture is fluid, not fixed, so meanings change over time. Knowledge is a source of power, b/c it shapes how we understand the world, and how we"re allowed to understand it. Once the world is socially constructed in a certain way, only then can we create social identities. Change occurs b/c of the diffusion of ideas. There"s a lot of learning in this process. Ideas are diffused through learnign, how you present those ideas, whether or not those ideas resonate at that point in time. Positivist vs. post-positivist constructivism (probably not on exam) An intersubjective ontology is combined with positivist methodology.
