SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Common Sense Revolution, Presidential System, Bob Ray
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September 19th, 2012: ideology and history: ways of seeing, defining ideology, the left/right ideological spectrum, the liberal debate, conservative revival, strands of socialism. Increasing complexity: mythistory, colombus and the war against the indians. After the 2nd world war, we lived in a bipolar world. Prof bell in 1960 wrote a book called the end of ideology which was very influential. By 1960 according to bell, we had sorted out these things that marx and hobbes and locke and rousseau were all talking about. The free world had a monopoly on this common sense. The communists were still prisoners of ideology according to bell. The soviets created a prob for academics in the western world. They claimed they had a science of history called historical materialism. This claim was a challenge thrown down to academics of the western world. Behaviouralism is a response to historical materialism.