POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Individualism, Francis Fukuyama, Liberal Democracy

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Clusters/composites of political beliefs, values, and ideas. A pattern of social, political, economic, technological, and philosophical beliefs that help us organize the world around use. Grounded in a belief system in human nature and social possibility. Including changes in central concepts and in relation of concepts to other concepts. Include core (primary) concepts and adjacent (secondary) concepts. What is special about political ideologies: typicality. Link to democracy, to concern with public opinion. Positive usages include both negative vs. positive approaches: We examine ideology as fellow sufferers, not as neutral observers. Ideologies do not stand side by side with something objective or real; rather they subtly constitute this reality . New faith in reason and science , the possibility of advance and discovery. Notion of a social contract government as a consequence of human reason. Contracts benefit both parties that enter into them. Possibility of social progress through advance of reason.

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