PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Karl Popper, Traditionalist Conservatism, Home Children
Document Summary
Children known as british home children in 1860s-1948 provided cheap labour. 4 million canadians are descendants of these children. Broad sense of ideology: left to right going down. Images (impressions of reality) attitudes (implicit assumptions) values (stand normal views of world) beliefs (faith and values) ideology (beliefs how political system should be organized) Ideology might be thought of in same way as religion: both have assumptions, both have fundamental beliefs, neither can be proved (cid:498)right(cid:499, both basic action for people. Marxist view: ruling class that uphold the class system and justify/perpetuate exploitation, class is ruling material force in society is at same time intellectual force. Ideology is false and role is to confuse classes in society. Ideologist are systems of thought that distort political reality by explaining incomprehensible: conservatism is not ideology, its an attitude of mind, tradition and history.
