SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antonio Gramsci, Talcott Parsons, Compulsory Education

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Dr. Amrita Ahluwalia

Document Summary

In the broadest philosophical sense, it is a world-view that gives prominence to the me over the we in society. While we have equality of opportunity" not everyone has equality of condition". Example: breakfast cereals or books/ magazines, and newspapers: controlled freedom of ideas: example-rupert murdoch"s news corp. in 2007, banning websites that were primarily gay or sexually liberated arts groups. Power of ideology and its agents: power of ideology: in the process of becoming human, we internalize the existing structures of power as well. This power of ideology allows the dominant class to maintain its rule: main agents of socialization in capitalist societies, mass media, education system, education system, expectation is that it will give true equality of opportunity by negating differences. Our standards of credulity, our standard of reality, tend to be set by these media rather than by our own fragmentary experience .