INTD 200 Lecture : COMS 230 full lecture notes.docx
18 Dec 2013
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Monday september 9th: wright mills the mass society, the power elite (oxford up 1956) 298-324. John durham peters historical tensions in the concept of public opinion, in public. What is democracy ? (r ponses de la classe) power of the people ? equal distribution of power ? power belongs to the people. Today democracy can mean many things: democracy as ideology. Vs marx etc identify ourselves against other part of the world. Has to rest on grain of truth. some little desire that get twisted into this claim than ends up distorting the complexity of the actual situation. Something more in democracy that simply it to be us : democracy as liberalism set of individual freedoms. // constitution fundamental freedoms: necessary condition of democracy freedom of: conscience and religion, belief, peaceful assembly, association. (canadian charter of rights and freedoms 1982) Negative individual liberties do not guarantee positive conditions for democracy. Enable people to act on these freedoms consistently.
