POLI 2F20 Lecture Notes - Zombie, Social Reality, Post-Structuralism
6 Nov 2013
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Focus on theories and how anarchies link to them. Exam outline the main theory of things in a zombie apocalypse. Reaction piece: read abstract says the main point read introduction skip over body, read conclusion. Constructivism treats ideas as structural factors: the world is irreducibly social and cannot be decomposed into (merely) actors . Considers dynamic relationship between ideas and material forces as a consequence of how actors interpret their material reality: anarchy is what states make of it. , red means stop. People make history but not under their own conditions. Key: knowledge shapes how actors interpret and construct their social reality: e. g. , what is a country? (benedict anderson"s imagined community ) Normative structures shape identity and interests of actors. Social facts (sovereignty, human rights, nationalities, terrorism, traffic light rules) exist because of human agreement: contrast with brute facts, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet .
