SOC 103 Lecture 4:
10 Nov 2016
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Market: a # of individuals competing with each other as individual units. Freedom: the ability of the sellers to compete along with the concurrent freedom of buyers to choose between these competing units. However, in capitalist societies structured inequality exists which limits these freedom - while we have the "equality of opportunity" not everyone has "equality of condition" (owning a car) Liberalism promotes the notion of freedom and individual rights, however they"re selective because of the class relations of capitalism. Competing ideas are seen as equivalent of goods competing in marketplace - notion that. "market of ideas" will lead to the most rational and useful ideas, this is largely an illusion just as few control goods or services not all ideas are presented equally and fairly. Capitalism requires that we believe that we have true freedom of choice - an example of controlled freedom of ideas: murdoch"s banning of websites that were primarily gay or lesbian.
