POL214Y1 Final: Both lectures on Political Culture + potential exam question
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Questions for exam- equality of life canadians have. Equality and income: what is ideology, left + right, conservatism. Contemporary + classical: the dominant ideology is democratic capitalism in canada or liberalism, in 1795 a french group called the ideologists formed and they were committed to studying ideologists. They were rationalists, supported the revolution, liberals who saw freedom of thought and expression as the main contributions of the french revolution. Using reason is the best guarantee of thinking and order: a body of ideas that reflects the social needs, aspirations and hopes of a specific group or peoples. Criteria to classify parties as left or right. Left wingers associate themselves with the poor, the workers etc (poor) The right with the privelged, with managers, bankers, (rich) Equality- wants everyone to have an equal chance. When it comes to moral issues, most contemporary conservatives believe that the state shouldn"t be moral and more of a do whatever you want atmosphere.
