Week 3 L1 and L2

Question 1

Political science

Answer 1

offers a broad spectrum of political knowledge on both national and international issues

Question 2

Theoretical framework

Answer 2

a set of key concepts and ideas that inform and justify a research design

Question 3

democracy

Answer 3

a political system in which people or their representatives lawfully govern themselves

Question 4

The public sphere

Answer 4

a social space where individuals discuss public affairs and public opinion develops

Question 5

Communicative rationality

Answer 5

use of reason is a nessecary feature of legitimate communication in the public sphere

Question 6

discourse ethics

Answer 6

to be authentic, conversations about civic matters need to include a diversity of perspectives and thoughtful public engagement

Question 7

Cultural relativism

Answer 7

An approach that holds that cultural beliefs and actions cannot be measured against an objective standard

Question 8

Methodological neutralism

Answer 8

to understand other cultures, social scientists must suppress their own moral convictions and immediate moral reactions when studying those cultures.

Question 9

Methodological contextualism

Answer 9

every custom belief or action must be studied in the context of the history, traditions, beliefs, problems, opportunities, and total body of customs of the culture in which it is found.

Question 10

cultural universalism

Answer 10

idea that one culture or civilisation in the world is obviously the best and therefore provides the universal standard by which every other cultures that exists can and should be judged

Question 11

ethnocentrism

Answer 11

the uncritical belief in the superiority of ones own culture

Question 12

scientific spirit

Answer 12

scientists must approach everything with doubt and skepticism, take nothing for granted

Question 13

objectivity

Answer 13

scientists must try to rid themselves completely of attitudes, desires, values, beliefs and tendencies when confronting data intended to support a finding

Question 14

ethical neutrality

Answer 14

scientists must not make value judgements about their findings, they must not pronounce their conclusions to be good or bad, right or wrong.

Question 15

environmentalism

Answer 15

a social movement that campaigns on a broad range of issues, from endangered animals, forests to global climate change

Question 16

Environmental politics

Answer 16

is a series of struggles between different people and groups ion society over how natural resources should be used or not be used