Sociology 2105A/B Chapter Notes -Baldus De Ubaldis, Totalitarianism, False Consciousness
25 Jun 2012
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Chapter six- complementarity and the social control of youth dissent. Looking at insight"s from george orwell"s dystopia nineteen eighty-four, in addition to huxley"s brave new world, we can see analogies that highlight what is otherwise accepted as normal and inevitable in contemporary societies. General public equates totalitarian society with communist society, most assume that orwell"s fictitious totalitarian society was based on the soviet. Union b/c of intrusiveness of the gov and absence of individual liberty. Principle benefits of ideological control: the controlled are not even aware of the fact that they are controlled, and as a consequence, they offer little or no resistance to it. Visible in american foreign policy- energies directed at helping other countries become democratic like the us- false consciousness. Huxley in brave new world, talking about young ppl in contemporary. The apathy and alienation in today"s youth combines to make them unwitting pawns.
