SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - French Revolution
20 Jun 2013
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A political ideology is a belief system that explains and justifies a preferred economic and governmental order for society, offers strategies for its maintenance or attainment and helps give meaning to public events, personalities and policies. While there are many different types of political ideologies, they all originate from liberalism, conservatism and socialism. In this essay i will outline the origins, the content and the evolution of these three ideological prototypes. Reading schuski, marchak and thompson one can draw the origins of liberalism, conservatism and. The beginning of free market, scientific development and other big changes in early modern times in europe led to new ideologies. One of the most significant one"s was liberalism, which grew in. It developed on ideas of responsibilities of an individual and on the relationship btw the society and the individual. As liberalism was the dominant ideology during the. French revolution, conservatism arose as a counter ideology during that time.
