SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Deskilling, Consumerism, Conspicuous Consumption
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Dominant ideology: degree of dominant depends on power differential. Dominant class has access to agents of socialisation (education, Organization of the subordinate class attempt to develop class. Ideologies of dominant groups are conservative; ideologies of (cid:1) An evidence-resistant system of ideas that represent interests of a group (class, nation, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, etc. ) (cid:1) Beisel, 1990: moral superiority as an instrument of class struggle. Societies for suppression of vice in the 1890s u. s. supressed working class not bourgeoisie. (cid:1) between opposing groups. (cid:1) media). 1970s: upper-class preference for psychotherapy has declined in favour of medication. Evolution (caused by economic technological or social changes) Avoids moral evaluation, usually by positioning biological causation. Rates of depression are directly proportional to rates of unemployment. Both causation and responsibility for cure are individualized- This ideology represents interests if corporate medicine and. Change in class preference for treatment of mental disordes since the. Ideologies (as other important cultural content) are relatively stable.
