POL 128 Final: POL 128 exam notes

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

Ideology: systematic and coherent set of ideas about society and about the world, theories, sets of ideas and beliefs, what must be maintained or changed, a way of looking at the world to make sense of the world. Opinions are not ideologies: often ideologies are normative, political ideologies are belief systems. Ideologies are action oriented (whether to change or maintain the world) How does an ideology work: 3 steps, identifies a problem, ex. Political spectrum: what is the role of government intervention in the society. Way of organizing ideologies from left (liberal) to right (conservative) wing. Left democratic socialist liberalism conservative factious right (more gov. Communism: (least amount of gov. control) (more gov. : gov. needs to control everything, owns hotels, factories, everything, communists don"t like religion then government should get rid of religion. Democratic: we don"t have to change everything, we have to improve. Conservatives: believe in capitalism, believe in there is a role for government in making people behave.