SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: False Consciousness, Dialectic, Social Relation

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2560
• Professor: Arash Falasiri

Document Summary

Ideological thinking based on binary oppositions as the logic of ideological thinking experts suggest there is a positive list which consists a negative/contrasting side as well (application of an ideological thinking) ex. More or less like a wall manner thinking instead of a bridge does not see interrelation between phenomena (tries to exclude all challenges to make everything unified) Not a closed system of thought (open thinking) Does not suppress or eliminate challenging factors (quiet about the future) How dominant ideology works? a system of values which serves to sustain relations to domination, it legitimate itself by: Promoting beliefs and values congenial to it. Forcing people to believe that the issues are inevitable. Obscuring and falsifying social reality in ways convenient to itself by suppressing certain features of reality. 3 terrorist attacks vs 2197 indigenous rapes and murders of females (media covers the rapes) Myth vs truth truth is a fact that corresponds with reality.