COMN 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Juvenile Delinquency, Electronic Voting, False Consciousness

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 2500
• Professor: Paulaiken

Document Summary

Born of a contradiction: it"s the material study of immaterial things, ideas . The basis of the marxist understanding of ideology was this: something that"s false or misleading bc its mystifying . Ex: cellphone makes u more free - -- this is false. This idea is however mystifying u from the reality; since it takes time and money away from everyone. Ideology: bad parenting, bad genes, bad teachers, etc. Research however suggest that : it"s a lack of opportunity that leads youth crime. Ideology shifts the blame to victims and this obscures the real causes. In its most basic sense, then, ideology critique is an attempt to show the rational kernel the concrete explanation that"s hidden inside the ideological or mystical shell . >> the knowledge produced by science changes the way we view things and then changes our very understanding of the new thing. >> the things we see as common sense should be questioned.