SOSC 3365 Study Guide - Final Guide: False Consciousness, Atomism, Immanence

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3365
• Professor: Prof. Kobzar

Document Summary

Discussion of ideology in relation to aboriginal worldview. The premise that aboriginal people were on a search for subjective inner knowledge to arrive at insights into existence. Exploration of the self the basis of personal development and aboriginal epistemology. Aboriginal people first languages + culture crucial components in the transformative learning process. Orientation of transformation: skills that promote personal/social change, vision of social change that leads to harmony with the environment rather than control, attribution of a spiritual dimension to the environment. Ideology = key to quality research on epistemology. Ideology = the science of ideas that separates science from the metaphysical + attitudes and ideas the conceal the real nature of social relations to justify and perpetuate social dominance. The influence of the western world in shaping knowing selective validations and categorization of western science =influence on western ideology western world"s corrupt look towards knowledge.