PoliticsChapter1
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| Politics | Power and influence are used in the promotion of certain values and interests
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| Types of Political Knowledge Sources of P.K. | 1. Description (Facts)
2. Explanation (How and Why)
3. Prescription (What should happen)
Sources: Authority, personal thought, science
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| Authority | Anything that is believed to possess the controlling explanation regarding a particular issue (documents, parents, tradition, etc)
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| Types of Authority | 1. Specific Authority (Parents, teachers, friends, or a famous person)
2. General Authority (constitutions, revered leaders, widely respected media or books, religious teachings)
3. "Everyone" (literally the majority of people)
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| Problems with Authority | 1. Even though you may look up to this individual, they may not be the proper source of knowledge
2. "everyone knows X is true", there is no guarantee everyone is right
3. Nothing or no one knows all of the crucial information
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| Personal Thought | Rationality-logical or obvious "makes sense"
Intuition-based on feelings, sense of understanding or empathy
Personal Experience-your own experiences
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| Science | Most reliable form of P.K. The goal is to describe and explain-to answer what, why, and how questions
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| Essential Characteristics of Scientific Method | 1. Empirical (supported by evidence)
2. Regularities (connections, happens before)
3. Cumulative (builds and grows)
4. Testable (you can test it)
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| When reading about politics you can... | Ignore it
Accept that it is correct
Reject it
Try to assess it
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| Political Analysis | the attempt to answer the questions and explain your reasoning
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| Subfields of Political Science | 1. Comparative politics-compares and contrasts political process
2. American politics-study of American politics
3. International relations-political relations between countries
4. Political theory-ideas and debates dealing with political questions
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