POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Empirical Evidence
10 Nov 2016
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Packages of assumptions about how the world works. Key actors you need to decide who they are (who is important) How we view and understand the world, what we think reality is, how we see or understand the essence of the world around us. What can be seen, measured, counted, etc. There is no objective reality (everything is socially constructed, operate according to subjective understandings of how the world works) Act like a man (strong, brave, insensitive) Act like a lady (appearances, cook & clean, etc. ) We act like these roles are natural, but in reality they are socially constructed and we accept them as reality. How we approach the study of reality, how we understand it. Involves the ways and means by which we come to know something (or at least what we think we know) about the world. Not only an objective reality, but one that we can measure. The (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld is (cid:862)out the(cid:396)e(cid:863), sepa(cid:396)ate f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the (cid:448)ie(cid:449)e(cid:396)
