SOSC 2560 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Antonio Gramsci, Social Order, Social Relation

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2560
• Professor: John Simoulidis

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Dominant/counter ideologies (reading: patricia marchak - week 4) *(both dominant and counter ideologies come from the same framework, but are different in organization and function) Important to examine the relationship between the two (d/c)-- consist of different ideas of the world: marchak says that ideologies are (cid:494)screens(cid:495) through which we perceive the social world as ideologies consist. )n althusser(cid:495)s theory of ideology he states that ideology has a social function but not one of producing. Ideologies help organize, explain and evaluate events, the rightness or wrongness of social arrangements. Ideology is an unconscious phenomenon and is the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence knowledge. Concept: therefore we should learn to understand complexity of social reality and why/how the world works, to not be ignorant/blind or reject ideas of the social world and to think deeper in order to analyze this complexity.