PO217 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Descriptive Statistics, Cuban Missile Crisis, Real Change
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Of ce hours: dawb 4-132 tuesday and thursday 1:30-2:30. Ta hours: monday 2:30-11:00 dawb 5-129 and wednesday 10:00-11:00 dawb 4-129. Scienti c approach to politics: is to use critical thought as a guide to our perceptions of the political world. Normative: how you think or would like the world to be, it is about the ideals and value judgments of prescriptive. Empirical analysis: how actually things happen and why they happen in a certain way, it is about disruptive and explanatory of observation. Natural phenomena (soft) is: social science and natural science. Human behaviour (hard) is: political science, sociology and economics. Experience (observation) how we know using the scientific method. From a positivism view reality can be measured empirically and objectively. Nature is orderly meaning you are on a path that is pre determined that and you do not have free choice (determinism) Empiricism: required that every knowledge claim be based upon systematic observation.
