POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Liberal Internationalism, Multilateralism, Middle Power
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Prof usually doesn"t post anything on blackboard but today it will be. This class is an essential class in order to understand quiz and the assignment. Agenda: what is theory, theories of canadian foreign policy, national interest. Explained facts: social science is always all about observing facts and making theories about them. If apples fall from trees, we see one can observe it. The knowledge itself changes over time as we observe new things. World views: it brings particular sets of issues, theories act as sort mechanism sort things and exclude other facts. We have theories that have basic proposition that only particular variables can be included, and other variables get excluded. In that sense the theory shapes the social world we are engaged in with: when applied to social life, it suggests the theory we have actually have influence on shaping social world.
