POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ultimatum Game, Marxism, Friedrich Hayek
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Who are the actors: states, regional organizations, ngos, multinational corporations. Abstract structures (class, globalization, nationalism, etc. ) are not enough for explaining the actions of individual people. We could have all kinds of people but the individual should be the basic unit of analysis. Max weber (1922) (cid:498)we talk about about states, associations and businesses (cid:499) Emphasis on micro foundations of social action. Focus is on the role of collectivities, not individuals. You can think of international politics as a burning house, the people inside, what. If we"re going to talk about agency, there is always room for it. their circumstances. Path dependence - the choices we make today are constrained based on the choices people made in the past as well as our own decisions today. (has to do with human agency) Individual qualities of the actors matter when they are in the burning building, the distinction between structure and agency is difficult to maintain.
