IDEOLOGY & CURRENT ISSUES

1) How does the concept of ideology play a crucial role in shaping political systems and social structures in various societies?

• Ideology influences beliefs, values, and norms, shaping political systems and social structures.
• The combination of 2 greek words 'idea' and 'ideo', 'logos' meams science. Means that science of ideas

• Ideology has no impact on political systems and social structures
• Ideology only affects individual beliefs and not societal structures

Types of ideologies

• Relativism

• Challenges

• Modernism

• Post Modernism

How should individuals resolve conflicts between personal beliefs and cultural norms?

• Subjective Relativism - The view that right action are those sanctioned by a person.

  Cultural Relativism - The view that right are those sanctioned by one’s culture

• Avoid conflict resolution and maintain the status quo
• Ignore personal beliefs and conform strictly to cultural norms
• Evaluate personal beliefs and cultural norms critically, seek compromise or find a middle ground.

Life under capitalism is often presented as?

: A __________ of the human substance

Modernism ideology manifest itselfs in multiple ways

• Modernism ideology only appears in literature
• Modernism ideology is limited to music
• In static form of novels that refuses historical dynamism inherent to realist representation and in the destruction of man's capacity to realize his existence as a social being

• Modernism ideology manifests itself in various forms such as literature, art, architecture, and design.

What are the guise of postmodernism

• Certainty, objectivity, adherence to traditional norms
• Belief, sincerity, objective truth
• Experimental, self concious and ironic

• Skepticism, irony, subjective truth, deconstruction of traditional norms and values

What do postmodernist believes in?

How does ideology influence societal expectations and notions of progress?

• Ideology influences societal expectations and notions of progress by shaping the values and beliefs of a society.
• Dobson, 1992 - A reasonably coherent structure of thought shared by a group of people. It is a means of explaining how society works and explaining how it ought to work.

• Societal expectations and notions of progress are solely influenced by economic factors
• Ideology has no impact on societal expectations and notions of progress