SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Naimans, Individualism, Social Inequality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Lock Rebecca

Document Summary

Ideology: a body of assumptions, values and beliefs that form a worldview. Conditions of possibility for ideology arise from our social, historical and relations of power contexts. It"s not our thinking that creates things that too much free will, it"s our social existence that determine our thoughts. Happens gradually over time through the process of socialization. Through the process of and ideology being formed or maintained and perpetuated the ideology becomes naturalized. The naturalizing has to had the historical process to be ideological to the point where we aren"t include about the development involved in creating the ideology because we think it"s just the way it should be. For and ideology to be successful it must convince us that it"s natural and unchangeable. Political tool that get people to accept present conditions. Our beliefs and ideas can be linked to relations of power and arise of particular conditions at specific times in history.