SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Talcott Parsons, Sept, Dominant Ideology
23 Mar 2013
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Thurs: 1:00-3:30: ways of seeing, dominant ideology, historical materialism (karl marx) [ science of history] 2000 --- 6 billion people, sept 12th 2012 we have 7 billion , estimate 9 billion by 2050 ) 61/100 asians in the world, 12/100 european, 14/100 western hemisphere (north and south), 13/100 african, 50/100 male, 50/100 women, 70/100 non white, 30/100 white, 6/100 have all wealth (all in us), 1/100 would have a college education, 1/100 would have a computer: holmbergs mistake - western hemisphere prior to columbus. 95 - progressive conservative common sense revolution ---reach ideological discus- sion/governing is now common sense. The left / right ideological spectrum: unit of analysisclan. 7: mythistory, columbus & the war against indians (mcneill, zinn & rasky) S: nature of human natureflawed, all institutions are full of ideology and full of values. If it ain"t brokenatural inevitabledesirable: ethics and objectivity in social science.
