Social Studies skills: Difference between revisions
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* motives are frequently behind agency, catalysts and triggers | * motives are frequently behind agency, catalysts and triggers | ||
* historical literacy is enhanced by understanding motives | * historical literacy is enhanced by understanding motives | ||
==== Unintended | ==== Unintended consequence ==== | ||
* when an expected outcome yields additional, unexpected and/or unpredicted outcomes | |||
** those outcomes may be positive or negative | |||
* frequently historical choice is made that causes a different outcome than that expected by the actors or agents | * frequently historical choice is made that causes a different outcome than that expected by the actors or agents | ||
** ex. Some French aristocrats early on supported the French Revolution but themselves became victims of it. | ** ex. Some French aristocrats early on supported the French Revolution but themselves became victims of it. | ||
* a problem of the unknown unknowns | |||
** what is expected may happen | |||
** but the unexpected was not expected = unintended consequence | |||
=== Why the cat died last night: an exercise in causality === | === Why the cat died last night: an exercise in causality === | ||