SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noble Savage, World War Ii, Classical Liberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Colline Terry

Document Summary

An ideology is comprised through assumptions, beliefs, explanations, values and unexamined knowledge. Shared ideas perceptions, values and beliefs through which members of a society interpret history and contemporary social events. Is defined as that particular set of ideas,perceptions,values,beliefs which is most widely shared and has the greatest impact on social action any particular society. The pacing of faith in an alternative set of belief, assumptions, values and orientations. Point out the inconstancies the look of congruence between empirical evidence and ideological statements. Someone who strives to understand why people believe what they believe what relationship those beliefs have to empirical evidence and how belief affect social action. Charles mann from the course readings identifies holmberg"s mistake as a. Misunderstanding of indigenous people as a result of war and disease causing the indigenous community to be not only genetically, but culturally bottlenecked. Holmberg analyzed a community that seemed to lack culture, and simply lived without history.