Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Andrew Linklater, Antonio Gramsci, Theodor W. Adorno
19 Nov 2012
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Happiness through buying of more and more goods and services. People are consumers above all else, especially citizen . Names: theodore adorno, max horkheimer, jurgen habermas, andrew linklater. Reliance on sci and tech to solve problems. Problem: instrumental means- end rationality= managerial technocratic politics. Non-capitalist states doing same: ussr, cuba, china not question process . Socialization through mass education system and mass media indoctrinating people to accept. No inherent class consciousness- work specialists, part of global systems. International division of labour, underground eco; work one place, live another place (nannies) Working class is not one mind or entity but variety of interests and mindsets- emancipation not only emerging from the working class, but also other social groups. Concept of the citizen = voided fiction; preference for taxpayers and consumers and investors vs. students and homeless and poor. Ashley on knowledge: and constraints (develop understanding of 1 and 2 in order to accomplish 3)
