SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Reality
8 Feb 2015
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It is revealed to our understanding through a screen of assumptions, beliefs, explanations, values, and unexamined knowledge. Together, these elements on the screen comprise an ideology (merchak 61: this ideology hides some things from us, all while projecting our attention on only a few realities (61) Some parts of it are deliberately transmitted by parents, schools, the media, and the other institutions of our society. It provides some dominant themes, some rules of thumb, some central beliefs that guide our actions and our perceptions in our habitual rounds of activity (61) controls what we do and how we think. There is an explanation for the structure of power, for why the public world is ordered in such a fashion. This is reinforcing the idea that a child must do well in school so they can go to the top (62) Provides the ready references, the rules of thumb, the directives to the eyes and ears of its members.
