Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes - Chapter Midterm Readings: Feudalism, Class Conflict, Leninism
10 Oct 2017
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Ideas and ideologies influence political life in a number of ways: they structure political understanding and so set goals and inspire activism, they shape the nature of political systems, they act as a form of social cement. Pragmatism: behaviour shaped in accordance with practical circumstances and goals rather than ideological objectives. Ideas that propagate false consciousness among the exploited or oppressed. False consciousness: a marxist term denoting the delusions and mystification that prevents subordinate classes from recognizing the fact of their own exploitation. Hegemony: the ascendency or domination of one element of a system over others; for. Liberals: viewed ideology as an officially sanctioned belief system that claims a monopoly of truth, often through a spurious claim to be scientific. Conservatives: regard ideology as a manifestation of the arrogance of rationalism. Socialists: see ideology as a body of ideas that conceal the contradictions of class society, thereby promoting false consciousness and political passivity among subordinate classes.
