The Pros And Cons Of Political Science

Political Science has many definitions. Some would say it is simply a game of rhetoric but at its hearth it can be defined as a discipline that studies public polices, political behaviors, governments and political behavior. As a social science, the process used to acquire information includes a combination of several approaches. Political Science uses case studies, historical, constitutional, and institutional contexts, comparative case studies and also quantitative/qualitative methods. In the area of race, political science can have the tendency to overlook racial inequality as an issue. An extension of this is that it doesn’t use “identity” as a core analytical category from which to make decisions. It doesn’t allow for a difference between

A few racial questions that can be found being discussed on the official White House website are as follows: Should the federal government collect data on race and ethnicity? Should race and ethnicity be asked as a single identification or should be separate? These questions show what aspects of race Political Science is at least considering and it is important that these issues are considered because Political Science needs to understand how governmental actions encourage or discourage racial issues like profiling and inequality. This discipline also needs to know how racial identity can effectively be studied with the appropriate methodology as something that actively makes a difference in how people understand and perceive

An idea typically associated with Sociology is sociological imagination. Sociological Imagination is a person’s capacity to understand what’s going on around them in a broad sense and then use that information to understand their own internal situation. Mills makes the claim in his first chapter of The Sociological Imagination that its impossible to understand and individual 's life of the history of a society without understanding both historical change and institutional contradiction. He believes that individual and society are related but even goes a step further to say that one must understand the society initially and then understand the