SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Binary Opposition, Antithesis, Presupposition

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2560
• Professor: Arash Falasiri

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4 functions 2 meanings - ideology: explanation: making sense of social reality, evaluation: providing standards for evaluating social conditions, orientation: granting a sense of identity, programmatic: supplying a prescription for action. There is no presupposition less thought, and to this extent our thinking might be ideological. In order to follow through life you always need preconceptions. To look at it in with an example: when someone says he gave me a good vibe; that is preconception. Binary oppositions: is a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning. Hegel tried to put motion in the logical thinking rather having the conception of binary opposition: instead of thinking 2 different ways you think linked; so for example being and nothing = becoming. For hegel dialectic is a medium of truth (uncover the contradiction within ideology) It is based on the notion of connectedness, or the interrelation of all aspects of the universe.