COMS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Upper Class, Alternative Media, Elite
31 Jan 2018
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The primary principle of democracy is equality, but also: Ideology: a concept typically used to describe belief systems that reduce the complexity of the world. or that are anti-intellectual, based more on emotional reaction than rational judgement. Liberalism: a political theory that emerged out of the enlightenment based on a presumption that humans enjoy natural rights to life, liberty and property. It refers to set of individual rights that provide negative liberties (ex. freedom of expression) Capitalism: the individual freedom to accumulate and dispose of property in markets; individual freedom of consumer choice. (inequality, if equality in democracy) Politics/government: public judgment and action concerning public affairs, and the distribution of power and resources. Critical standard: rather than a descriptive term that refers to precise and unchanging political, social or economic arrangement, democracy is instead: A set of shared principles according to which we measure our practice. Popular autonomy refers to a kind of collective self-determination based on three primary values:
