POLI 105 1st Edition Lecture 2Locke 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 termso Don’t stretch concept too farThese 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 concepto Must not be too abstract or too specific- What is an institution?o Has to have ruleso Can be big ideas or valueso Must have some type of sanction for wrongdoing o Informal: values, norms, belief systems, shared within a society, changes as society changeso Formal: stable, organized sanctions, gov’t, maintain structure - For a concept to have meaning it must have limitsProblems 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 optionInduction 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