CSCT 1CS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Homo Economicus, Classical Liberalism, Monarchy Of The United Kingdom

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 1CS3
• Professor: Joanne Leow

Document Summary

Systematic body of ideas belonging to a specific group of people. Social beliefs, practices, or values are represented as natural. Obscuring the complex conditions in which people live. Define and produce the acceptable and intelligible way of understanding the world. Marginal and subordinate groups also have ideologies. System of private enterprise aimed at producing profit. Underwrites many institutions we take for granted. Makes it harder to see its less desirable aspects; social fragmentation etc. The means of creating, distributing, and exchanging wealth lie mainly in the hands of individuals and the public, as opposed to the public. Ideology, mode of governance, and a policy package. Set of ideas and beliefs codified by global power elites. The governing or ascendant views in any given culture. Process of making, maintaining, and reproducing authoritative sets of meaning.