POLS 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Statism, Marxism, Sept
16 Sep 2013
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Pols241 sept. 14/2013 week 2 readings chapter 2. A worldwide trend since the 1930s has been the steady growth of the role of the state in political life. Models are normative statements about what societies should be like: they are empirical descriptions of how societies are and they are methodological approaches suggesting what aspects of political life to study. The main normative empirical and methodological concern is with individuals who pursuing their individual economic and political interest, together make up society. While individuals form groups they tend to gravitate towards different groups whose interest"s cross-cut with theirs because they all have a variety of interests. Do not like using the idea of the general good: believe that people are the most useful to society when they are allowed to pursue their own political and economic interests freely. Pursuit of individual interests= best good for society.
