SA 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Conditionality, Louis Althusser, Paradigm Shift
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Joanne naiman ends her discussion of the social construction of ideas and knowledge with an especially provocative paragraph: The struggles about the education system and the mass media are ultimately struggles regarding democracy and power, for the bottom line in these debates is who should control our social institutions. The corporate agenda quite directly hands over increasing amounts of control to private enterprise. People who oppose this agenda dispute the argument that the marketplace can meet social needs. Such individuals and groups demand that the state fulill its mandate of supporting public education as well as public broadcasting and ilm. It is likely that these struggles will continue in the near future. (2012, p. Let"s see if you agree with my assessment after completing the reading for this unit. The role of the state: naiman text: proceed with your reading of chapter 8, the.