POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Liberalism, Ethnic Nationalism, Industrial Revolution

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Janice Newton

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4: types of interest groups: professional associations, business, industry groups, trade unions, agricultural organizations, single interest groups, ideological interest groups, public interest groups, welfare associations. Media: role of advertising, wire services vs. original research, concentration of ownership, foreign ownership, conservative in uence. Ch. 5 conservative thought liberal thought socialism nationalism facism. Ideologies: shaped by social context, can be visible to us , action orientated, overlapping themes. Conservatism: diverse historical roots (reaction to the enlightenment, feudalism, defence of the existing order, values tradition, organic society, hierarchy, change . Classical liberalism: challenged the feudal order, individual, free market, liberty (negative freedoms: freedom from interference by the state), speech religion, assembly, role for the state (security, protect private property, new liberalism: need state to expand individual liberties. Socialism: response to the excesses of capitalism, principles: Facism: 20th century: hitler and mussolini, extreme form of nationalism, social values con ict with liberalism.