POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Neofunctionalism, United Nations Economic And Social Council
14 Apr 2014
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Ir theory always seeks to see the world: theories always have ontological, epistemological, and methodological components is what actors make up the world, ie. the social furniture, ontology, epistemology, methodology, theory always seeks to explain and provide temporal sequences is how we know the world focuses on the techniques we use to unearth data and evidence. If you can"t see it, it doesn"t really exist: emphasis on parsimony (limiting variables to see what is important, quantification (measuring your results, #"s are important, modeling the social sciences after the natural sciences, positivism has dominated the fields of ir, affecting the discipline"s question and answers limiting questions and answers, validation of knowledge, post positivism, rejection of positivism as a means to understanding social processes, hermeneutical approaches (interpretations of texts, qualitative analysis, don"t reject empirical inquiries, but some aspects of social reality are not.
