POSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Esure, Charismatic Authority, Feudalism
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Political ideology: presents or reads a blueprint for an idea of society. Concept of political ideology are both the scriptive and prescriptive elements enables us to determine how different our society is from the model as to suggest changes. Complete image of how our society should be organized. Feminism tells us that women do not play a political role which is proportionate to their presence in society. Does not tell us how a society in which women do play a role proportionate to their presence would be organized. You should not confuse the ideologies with political parties, because the names of are do not correspond with ideologies. E. g. all parties i(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada are (cid:862)li(cid:271)eral(cid:863) (cid:271)ut the(cid:455) are (cid:374)ot the li(cid:271)eral (cid:894)adj(cid:895) part(cid:455). Major objective of a party is not to change society; it is to become the government. Political parties have to fish in the same pond. Extremists are so few, they do not make much difference.