POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnography, Space Race, American Indian Movement
6 Sep 2016
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Politics lecture #3 september 21, 2015. Lecture outline: recap from previous lecture, why the shift from normative to positivist approaches, examples of deductive (rational-choice) and inductive (behaviouralism, challenges to positivism (-within science, social science, political/social challenges, alternative methodologies, examples, contemporary political science. In deductive reasoning, a theory precedes the observation. Theory generates hypotheses which can be tested empirically. Problem: the theory can limit what gets tested. Theory can overwhelm the data hard to actually observe complex human behaviour at work as always boiling down to the same phenomenon. In inductive reasoning, the theory follows the empirical observation. Problem: the data can be overwhelming hard to draw conclusions from it (the data can overwhelm the theory because there is so much data, it can be difficult to see the answer) Most frequently used in economics that individuals will make the best choices as consumers best.
