SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Noblesse Oblige, Mixed Economy, Environmentalism
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How you view the world is based on what position you are in society. Terrance ball: an ideology is a fairly coherent and comprehensive set of ideas that explains and evaluates social conditions, helps people understand their place in society, and provides a program for social and political action. Socialism, liberalism and conservatism are ideologies, not the only ones and may not even be the most important ones. Environmentalism, feminism other ideologies in social science. It serves as a guide and a legitmator for action, what you should do and why you should do it. Attempts to make sense of the work and provides a lens through which to filter and simplify contradictory information, provides consistency. An ideology provides answers 7 fundamental questions to political . Humans are flawed at birth, imperfect and cannot be perfect, we are unequal according to the. Place in the society will be ascribed to you based on characteristics.