PSCI 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Theoretical Definition, Ecological Fallacy, Social Liberalism
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Concept: idea/mental construct that represents phenomena in the real world. Conceptual questions are vague and hard to answer. Think of properties that are concrete and that vary. Think of the two ideal subjects one having a great deal of the concepts properties and the other having none. Some properties will end up being an entirely diff concept. Age, income might be related but they are different. Some properties themselves are concepts concepts themselves. Can"t use one concept to define another. Concept might be multidimensional - two or more distinct groups of empirical characteristics. Liberalism (economic liberalism(healthcare,taxes)), social liberalism (abortion, gun rights) Conceptual dimension - defined by a set of concrete traits of similar type. The concept of ______ is defined as the extent to which ______ exhibit the characteristic of ______. Second blank describes units of analysis- the people, countries, states, universities, counties, elections . etc. to which the concept applies.
