PSCI 2601 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Post-Structuralism, Social Reality, Neoliberalism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2601
• Professor: Mark Pearcey

Document Summary

The world is defined by material and ideational forces} and holism. Refer to3: actors are not born in a vacuum, states operate in a system conditioned by social behaviour, ex. States are born into a system define by sovereignty: reality is culturally and socially bound, social reality is constructed by states, ex. Sovereign is conditioned by the society of states: reality as a social fact, social reality is assumed as fact, and defines behaviour, ex. {how does a constructivist framework help you identify new issues that you had not previously considered?: a key issue is diffusion, captured by the concern with institutional isomorphism and the life cycle of norms. Institutional isomorphism, observes that thoise organizations that share the same environment will, over time that diversity yields to conformity and convergence around a single model. Frequently, the actors adopt a model either because of external pressures or because of its symbolic legitimacy. Not completely ideational, but includes materialists" perspectives.