CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Participatory Democracy, Modernization Theory, Individual And Group Rights
10 Dec 2018
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Dissensus challenges this idea that democracy is all about consensus, to help come of with public norms, rules and roles in behaviour. Ranciere says the core of democracy is dissensus, to challenge all the time what we consider normal, society can consent to dissensus. Conventional doing your obligations, agree to norms. Post-conventional questioning the norms/sensible and descent from it by saying what is good for everyone rather than a particular group. To encourage debate in public sphere, to challenge universalization of instrumental reason (tool in civil society) Cognitive application for public debate rational tool critical. Cognitive application because it induces desire, can be disruptive to traditional authority administrative perspective. 1960s after second world war modernization theory was introduce by daniel lerner. Propaganda section wrote pamphlets to persuade readers to leave their homes before invasion. Psyche war was written, his phd thesis, and he was given funding to study new markets after it.
