MCC-UE 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reward System, Direct Cinema, Dominant Ideology
27 Apr 2016
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9/17 ideology ~ systematic body of ideas, attitudes, values, and perceptions, as well as, actual modes of thinking typical of a given class or group of people in a speci c time and place. Presents incomplete, inaccurate, distorted understanding of social reality because it represents the interests and views of only one class though presented of universally true and valid. Example: unequal educational opportunities school is primary ideological state apparatus. Mediated by individual and group thoughts. ideology mysti es social relations: class rule. Individualism ~ to achieve own goals we must work hard for them. Reward system in which you get what you work for. Doesn"t account for people born into social positions that they are unable to escape from. (very common capitalist perspective: division of labor. Speci c job and responsibility : alienation. No control over means or relation of production.
