SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Liberalism, Social Reality, Egalitarianism
24 Nov 2016
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Social reality exists regardless of our perceptions of it (marchak 61) Wealth and poverty are real conditions, and power and the lack of it. There are effects and consequences of social actions. The problem is that all of these realities exist and we know they exist but human beings do not agree on the nature of their properties and their relationships to one another. Social reality does not appear to us directly, It is revealed to our understanding through assumptions beliefs explanations, values, and unexamined knowledge. An ideology grows with us from childhood. Parts are carried on from parents and media. Also from unspoken assumptions and attitudes of those around us. Ideology is not typically a systematic analysis of society. The dominant ideology provides the ready references, rules of thumb and it becomes the glue that holds institutions together. The idea that ideology is useful, even socially necessary, does not make it true.
