Political Science 1020E Quiz: Idology
14 Dec 2015
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The focus of the fourteenth lecture is the nature of ideology. We begin with the claim that social action is comprehensible in terms of the thinking that underlies it. Occupy wall street protests, one must see their connection to ideas about imperialism, political islam, the exercise of american power, and the role of capitalism in the contemporary world. Ideologies are systems of ideas with their own histories. They aim to shape social change, and they have themselves changed in response to historical events over the past several hundred years. The age of ideology began in the 1790s as part of the tumultuous period ushered in by the french revolution of 1789. Ideology" itself was coined by destutt de tracy and was intended by him to mean a science of ideas. We discuss the core of karl marx and friedrich engels" account of ideology.
