POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Fact
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How did interaction of states shape the structure of international politics. Ideational factors are fundamental building blocks of international politics. De nition: identities: relatively stable, role-speci c, understandings and expectations about self. Example: a prof, how we socially understand a position. Norm: a standard of appropriate behaviour for actors with a given identity. Getting in line, something we all agree on as a standard. Logic of appropriateness: internalizes roles and rules to which an actor conforms, not for instrumental reasons, but because they understand the behaviour to be good and or. Imagine nding a wallet; appropriateness versus consequences logic. Objective: things like a tree, knowing it exists in the world, or even gravity. Subjective: individuals: each of us experience in di erent ways, own subjective understanding of the world. Intersubjective knowledge: its the world as communities make it, the world we all agree on. 20 dollar bill: paper and ink- objectively/ fundamentally.
