SOCI 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: John Stuart Mill, Wage Labour, Neoliberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2050
• Professor: Sylvia Bawa

Document Summary

Marx and engels (1846/1970), regarded ideology (in contrast to science) as a potentially dangerous form of illusion and mystification that typically serves to conceal the truth. Social scientists now treat ideology largely in value-(cid:374)eutral ter(cid:373)s (cid:449)here it (cid:862)relati(cid:448)el(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:374)ig(cid:374) orga(cid:374)izi(cid:374)g de(cid:448)i(cid:272)e(cid:863), a(cid:374)d its (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of stru(cid:272)turi(cid:374)g politi(cid:272)al k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)pertise is e(cid:373)phasized. Researchers tend to conclude that members of the public are ideological only to the extent that they hold. Type of ideologies: political ideology liberalism, conservatism, totalitarianism, imperialism, fascism, anarchism, economic ideology free markets, capitalism, chicago school of economics neoliberalism. John stuart mill: emphasis on individualism, freedom, civil rights, margaret thatcher (cid:862)(cid:374)o so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) (cid:271)ut o(cid:374)l(cid:455) the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual a(cid:374)d fa(cid:373)ilies(cid:863) self-interested individuals, marx disagrees class difference and struggle should be basis of analysis. Capitalism: a feature of liberalism, economic system, free markets. Let the markets rule/dictate social, political and economic life.