POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Christian Democracy, Political Spectrum, Radical Change
23 Nov 2017
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What people think and believe about society, power, rights, etc determines their action. Critical examination of reality- thinking for oneself. Influences of others opinions- family, education, mass media, etc. 2 main concepts about the role of ideas in politics: Political culture- the broad pattern of political orientations shared by a large group of people (a nation, a region, a class, an ethnic group) Political ideology- a system of political ideas, developed for the purposes of political action (governing a country, launching a social movement or political party, organizing a revolution- or a counterrevolution, etc). To provide people with programs of political action: to govern societies or to struggle for change. Both for integration and for conflict you need an ideology- a coherent set of ideas for purposeful action. The earliest ideologies were religions, many of the earliest rulers in history were priests.
