POLB90H3 Lecture 3: POLB90 Lecture 3.doc

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Why is it important to understand the role of ideas: they can justify an action, they can shape an action, they can be linked to interests, they can even obscured/distort perception. Position based upon hereditary: hierarchical, no upward mobility, absence of spacial mobility, no influence from the outside. Large middle class: position based upon skill and education, always changing, people advance, geographical mobility, great influence from the outside. Lacks ambition: not open to innovation, no knowledge of science and technology, resists change, distrustful, superstitious. The modern man : ambitious, belief in modern science and technology. Knowledge of science and technology: open to change, consumption oriented. Values and development: max weber 19th/20th century german sociologist, wrote: the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, structural conditions make development possible, values determine whether development actually occurs. Traditional: undifferentiated, one person carries out political functions, one person is the law. Modern: complex, political action carried out by a group or institutions.

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