GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: J. Walter Thompson, Oneworld, Neoliberalism
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Steger"s ideologies of globalization: chapter 7 in steger. Ideologies: powerful systems of widely shared ideas and patterned beliefs that are accepted as truth by significant groups in society (103: these groups can also be governments. Ideology connects theory and practice by orienting and organizing human action in accordance with generalized claims and codes of conduct (103: i. e. I have a belief system and i act upon the codes and claims of those beliefs. Or do i try to ignore the truths: i. e. Globalization and ideology: like all social processes, globalization operates on an ideological dimension filled with a range of norms, claims, beliefs, and narratives about the phenomenon itself. (103) Economics, for example, is based on belief systems. Your belief system depends, of course, on which economic system you subscribe to or, more likely vice versa: the economic system you subscribe to depends on your belief system.
