SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dominant Ideology

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Judith Adler Hellman

Document Summary

These judgments and choices have nothing to do with scientific methodology. Mcneil thinks that"s myths are based on faith more than on fact. The truth is usually proven only by action they provoke. I was never taught on the treatment of their natives that lived in the americas. Whichever ideology is dominant in society, has the power to dictate how history is written. Ideology: we imagine ourselves as a part of a community. The significance of the columbus story is that it gives us the story of the native individuals who were cruelly exploited during the course of columbus"s invasion. History is an account of the past, whereas myth is a likely story. Mythistory, then, is a story of the past likely to have currency. A history is written to inform folks of what happened, and a myth is recycled to explain the meaning of what happened.