POL113H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Michael Freeden, Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty
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Michael freeden believes there are 8 parts to poliical ideologies. Ideologies are a set of beliefs, ideas and values that can be shared by individuals in both big and small groups. Society has many diferent poliical ideologies with diferent perspecives on issues, but usually more prominent ideologies are pushed by those dominant groups in society. Ideologies want to jusify, argue and change social and poliical arguments to suit their posiion and help the community come to a decision. Ideologies can be diferent social levels (face to face, global poliics) Set of beliefs, ideals, myths, etc. of a social movement, group or class that explains how society should work and ofers a poliical and cultural blueprint of the ideal social order. It is the building blocks of poliical theory. Concerned with allocaion of power and how it should be used. Two dimensions of poliical ideology: goal how society should be arranged, method the most appropriate ways to achieve this ideal arrangement.
