SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liberal Democracy, Corporatism, Encyclopedia

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1340
• Professor: John Simoulidis

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According to marchak the various types of political ideologies that is liberalism, socialism, and corporatism. The social organization gives rise to certain beliefs about what is right, appropriate, and desirable, that is, to certain values. These values are then assumed, and the society judges itself by those values. The liberal democracy gave rise to positive evaluations of equality, individualism, material prosperity, and personal freedom. The dominant ideology rests on an affirmative answer: yes, this society provides the necessary conditions for equality, material prosperity, and personal freedom (marchak, p. 2) Marchak contends that liberalism and socialism have numerous shared traits, for example, the objectives of uniformity and flexibility for nationals. Corporatism, despite against equity and advances an absolute chain of command, taking after the more established traditional belief system. Marchak uses marxist theory to explain past and present class structure and the emergence of a corporatist social structure (pp.