Topic > Approaches in Pol Sci - 1235

Behavioralism Behaviorism is one of the modern approaches, appearing in 1930. Like other modern approaches, behaviorism emerges because many political thinkers believed that traditional approaches were no longer sufficient to study political science . And so, because of the demands of this new perspective, Charles Merriam of the University of Chicago came up with the idea of ​​a new approach, which is behaviorism. Behaviorism is an approach that believes that political science should be managed and studied scientifically, rather than focusing only on norms and values. The approach also studied “how individuals actually behave in a group” instead of studying “how they should behave”. The hipster aspect of behaviorism is that it did not follow the old traditional way of traditional approaches, which are mainly about the study of institutions and the state. Instead, it is more concerned with the study and examination of the behavior, actions and deeds of individuals. According to Nicolai Petro in his book The Rebirth of Russian Democracy, behaviorism uses these methods: sampling, interviews, scoring, scaling and statistical analysis. Behaviorism also treats and observes human beings according to the above methods, as it tries to make everything scientific. David Easton, one of the proponents of behaviorism, has indicated some salient characteristics of behaviorism, which I then try to understand and theorize on my own: Regularity: This characteristic means that in political behavior there are, no matter to what extent, similarities, and these similarities can be generalized. This helps researchers understand people's political behavior more easily and quickly. Verification: Behaviorists usually do some verification, that is, they verify and test things before they can accept them. They even have a saying: “that which cannot be