SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: New Left, Radical Change, Neoliberalism
7 Apr 2016
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The dominant ideology provides the ready references, the rules of thumb, the direcives to the eyes and ears of its members. And who controls the present controls the past (george. Orwell, quoted in howard zinn columbus and western civilizaion) Acquiring the language of the social sciences" the rooms of poliical science and history. How do we understand and explain what is going on in society. We experience" our social reality through a screen of assumpions, beliefs, explanaions, values, and unexamined knowledge (p. 1) or through the screen of ideology. Ideologies help to organize, interpret and evaluate events, the rightness (or wrongness) of social arrangement (e. g. structure of power") We experience" our social reality through a screen of assumpions, beliefs, explanaions, values, Dominant ideology frames the reality we interpret, through it. It acts to reproduce and legiimate the social structure of a society as it is.
