SOCI 376 Lecture 6: SOCI 376 - October 16 Notes
31 Oct 2017
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Color/symbol legend: blue = questions, red = examples, quotes, green = definitions, purple, ( ), (underlined) = important concepts/ideas, black = all other notes, = this leads to, thus. Ideology: a set of ideas that are meant to explain and justify the existing reality (benefits one class for the expense of the other: deception) Invisibilised because we take it as neutral and objective knowledge: ruling ideas: dominant culture (those who are in position of privilege, gatekeepers = represent the ideas of the ruling class. Knowledge can be a force of contention: 3 tricks, the ideas are detached from those who produced them, selections from reality are taken as a proof of the validity of these ideas. They are attributed to someone with authority: a relationship is argued to exist between the ideas, claiming this to be a proof that the ideas are true, hiding their common origin.
