Social 30: Exploring Ways of Thinking

Beliefs:

• The ideas and understandings that a person holds to be true, often influenced by such things as one's culture, language, religion, gender, and worldview.
• An economic system based on free markets, fair competition, wise consumers, and profit-motivated producers, in which a minimum of government involvement is favoured.
• A system of thought based on beliefs and values that include ideas about how the world works, how we should live together as a society, and what society could become in the future.
• • Interpretations of history• Beliefs about human nature• Beliefs about society• Visions for the future.

Capitalism:

• An economic system based on free markets, fair competition, wise consumers, and profit-motivated producers, in which a minimum of government involvement is favoured.
• • how the social world works• how we should live together• how we should treat one another• why we should or should not care about society and others• how society ought to be in the future
• A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or group; the lens through which the world is viewed by an individual or group; the overall perspective from which the world is interpreted.
• A system of thought based on beliefs and values that include ideas about how the world works, how we should live together as a society, and what society could become in the future.

Collectivism:

• An ideology that places the needs and goals of the collective, or group, before those of any individual member of the group, and is based on a belief in the interdependence of human society.
• Believed that people are rational, intelligent, and reasonableBelieved people had the ability to be reasonable and make rational decisions.Believed governments should only exist to protect life, liberty, and property which is why people give up their natural freedom to be a part of civilized society. Believed that any government decision must be supported by the majority of the people in society (known as popular consent).
• The ideas and understandings that a person holds to be true, often influenced by such things as one's culture, language, religion, gender, and worldview.
• Believed that people are inherently good and have been corrupted by civilization and societyBelieved that people are naturally free and are equal in principle ("Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains")People had lost compassion for one another and have become selfish, and based their happiness on the opinions of others. Believed the ideal state was one in which the general will of the people was the absolute authority.

Communism:

• An ideology based on the belief that the oppressed working class must overcome its property-owning oppressors through revolution, so that together they can work towards becoming a classless society in which property is owned by the community and all people share in the production of goods and in the benefits of production (at which point, in theory, no government is needed)
• An ideology based on the belief that the oppressed working class must overcome its property-owning oppressors through revolution, so that together they can work towards becoming a classless society in which property is owned by the community and all people share in the production of goods and in the benefits of production (at which point, in theory, no government is needed).
• A diagram on which ideologies can be organized according to a particular set of criteria, such as the extent to which they emphasize collectivism or individualism, which appear on opposite ends of the spectrum.
• Believed that people are inherently good and have been corrupted by civilization and societyBelieved that people are naturally free and are equal in principle ("Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains")People had lost compassion for one another and have become selfish, and based their happiness on the opinions of others. Believed the ideal state was one in which the general will of the people was the absolute authority.

Ideological Spectrum:

• A diagram on which ideologies can be organized according to a particular set of criteria, such as the extent to which they emphasize collectivism or individualism, which appear on opposite ends of the spectrum.
• refers to the tools used to pass along information and ideas.
• • Interpretations of history• Beliefs about human nature• Beliefs about society• Visions for the future.
• An economic system or approach to economic decision making for a particular country or society, such as operating according to communism or capitalism or choosing to provide health care or private hospitals.

Ideology:

• A system of thought based on beliefs and values that include ideas about how the world works, how we should live together as a society, and what society could become in the future.
• An ideology that values the rights and freedoms of the individual, often above the security and harmony of the whole group.
• a political system or approach to political decision making for a particular country or society, such as operating according to dictatorship or democracy or the principle of citizen obedience or the right to question.
• • how the social world works• how we should live together• how we should treat one another• why we should or should not care about society and others• how society ought to be in the future

Individualism:

• An ideology that values the rights and freedoms of the individual, often above the security and harmony of the whole group.
• An ideology based on the belief that the oppressed working class must overcome its property-owning oppressors through revolution, so that together they can work towards becoming a classless society in which property is owned by the community and all people share in the production of goods and in the benefits of production (at which point, in theory, no government is needed).
• The ideas and understandings that a person holds to be true, often influenced by such things as one's culture, language, religion, gender, and worldview.
• An ideology based on the belief that the oppressed working class must overcome its property-owning oppressors through revolution, so that together they can work towards becoming a classless society in which property is owned by the community and all people share in the production of goods and in the benefits of production (at which point, in theory, no government is needed)

Values:

• The ideas and understandings that people hold to be important or fundamental to who they are as individuals or as members of a group, often influenced by such things as one's culture, language, religion, and gender.
• • Nation• Religion• Class • Relationship to the land
• An economic system based on free markets, fair competition, wise consumers, and profit-motivated producers, in which a minimum of government involvement is favoured.
• may refer to a recognized country or a group that sees itself as a nation: a group with common culture, history, heroes, language, customs, and goals.

Worldview:

• A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or group; the lens through which the world is viewed by an individual or group; the overall perspective from which the world is interpreted.
• An ideology based on the belief that the oppressed working class must overcome its property-owning oppressors through revolution, so that together they can work towards becoming a classless society in which property is owned by the community and all people share in the production of goods and in the benefits of production (at which point, in theory, no government is needed).
• A system of thought based on beliefs and values that include ideas about how the world works, how we should live together as a society, and what society could become in the future.
• • how the social world works• how we should live together• how we should treat one another• why we should or should not care about society and others• how society ought to be in the future

Ideologies are systems of thought that try to explain:

• • how the social world works• how we should live together• how we should treat one another• why we should or should not care about society and others• how society ought to be in the future
• An ideology that values the rights and freedoms of the individual, often above the security and harmony of the whole group.
• Believed that people are inherently good and have been corrupted by civilization and societyBelieved that people are naturally free and are equal in principle ("Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains")People had lost compassion for one another and have become selfish, and based their happiness on the opinions of others. Believed the ideal state was one in which the general will of the people was the absolute authority.
• A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or group; the lens through which the world is viewed by an individual or group; the overall perspective from which the world is interpreted.