SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: English Civil War, State Ownership, Classical Liberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

Terence ball - an ideology is a fairly coherent and comprehensive set of ideas, that explains and evaluates social conditions, helps people understand their place in society, and provides a program for social and political action. Identifies political right and distinguishes it from political wrong. Maps out connections of politics one hand and other spheres of human existence. Ideology serves a guide to how we behave and an animation of what we do, helps make sense of a severity of complex world. Pair of eyeglasses, and acts as a filter to help us see the world better. Can be perfected, co- operative flawed entities, flawed from birth, non perfectible, unequal at birth. Cannot be changed, can not be perfected. Human beings come together to create society, and can dissolve it when they see fit. Atomistic(we are a collection of atoms, and are not linked together) Don"t trust change, is usually bad, should be resisted.