POLI 200 Final: POLI-200-FINAL-NOTES (cumulative, all year)

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Reading: open the social sciences (wallerstein: social sciences was constructed through the separation between philosophy and science. Prior, both fields were very deemed almost interchangeable both meant knowledge, little distinction between the two was made. Snow two cultures science defined as empirical (search for truth through research) vs. In 19th century, university became the centre of the creation and reproduction of knowledge. > faculties (esp. philosophy) became divided into disciplines, with chairs, and departments that would give degrees: between 1750 and 1850, development of 6 major names which became departments/national associations/scholarly journals/library categories. Lines of demarcation: names were chosen based on basic divisions: (1) past-present: a division between history vs. sociology, political science and economics, 2 different assumptions of how scientific truth was achieved: 1. historians thought that only evidence documents that were written at the time for purposes other than informing future historians could be trusted.