POLI 105 1st Edition Lecture 2 Locke v Hobbes Locke free will Hobbes leviathan Need to create order Social contract Terrorism What in the World Terror today is concentrated in a few places Terror today anti western rhetoric anti Muslim violence ontology and epistemology Ontology shapes your epistemology Goal is to find the truth Determinism v probablism Key Issues Define Describe Explain Do concepts travel o Can we apply one concept to multiple cases o Should we vary i e religious terrorism v state sponsored terrorism Do concepts stretch o Use concept in appropriate terms o Don t stretch concept too far These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Do we have a proper level of abstraction o Different people have different definitions of a concept o Must not be too abstract or too specific What is an institution o Has to have rules o Can be big ideas or values o Must have some type of sanction for wrongdoing o Informal values norms belief systems shared within a society changes as society changes o Formal stable organized sanctions gov t maintain structure For a concept to have meaning it must have limits Problems with Observation One can apply the scientific method to gov t What does it mean to observe Micro level causation of each individual case is not necessarily the best option Induction v deduction Induction we have data and want to find out which variables matter Deduction we have an outcome and want to deduct Case Study Correlation does not necessarily mean causation Causation over correlation Spurious correlation