Social ideology

Collins, P. 2000. The Uruk Phenomenon The Role of Social Ideology in the Expansion of the Uruk Culture during the Fourth Millennium BC. BAR International Series 900. Oxford Archaeopress. 

Ozment, Stephen E., Mysticism and Dissent. Religious Ideology and Social Protest in the Sixteenth century (New Haven and London Yale University Press, 1973). 

Armando Aranda What you say is actually deadly serious indeed, and I wonder whether the problem comes from the science and the scientists or is it the political and social system that then takes the science that is useful for its purposes Or is it an interactive situation, a certain attitude or ideology breeds a certain kind of science or do they feed back each other ... 

As society advances, its values depend on what is produced and those sources of production. However, as the means to acquire products becomes easier, values turn inward to the general societal welfare and our environment. Uncontrolled fire can devastate our assets and production sources, and this relates to the societal costs of fire prevention and loss restoration. The effects of fire on people and the environment become social issues that depend on the political ideology and economics that prevail in the state. Thus, attention to fire prevention and control depend on its perceived damage potential and our social values in the state. While these issues have faced all cultures, perhaps the twentieth century ultimately provided the basis for addressing fire with proper science in the midst of significant social and technological advances, especially among the developed countries. 

Fleck s characterization of the thought-style of "modem scientific thinking, especially in the natural sciences," suggests that he considered scientific practice to differ in some important respects from other social or ideological practices ... 

In a social context like the United States, however, a politics of justice based upon literal sameness is highly problematic. The ideological move entailed by this revision of Jewishness is fraught with implications for other racially defined groups. The broadest, most sweeping stakes of... 

You may indeed be Caucasian, in other words, but you are not white. The Ozawa and Thind decisions demonstrate the ultimate function of race as an ideological tool and whiteness as property whose value was to be protected. As the court suggested in Ozawa, race is a practical line of separation, not a natural one and in social, economic, and political practice, separation is hierarchy. What would most astonish the average white person about the diminution of the unmistakable and profound differences between whites and Hindus, to take the language of the Thind decision, would be his or her own loss of standing as a result. 

John Higham, Ideological Anti-Semitism in the Gilded Age, and The Rise of Social Discrimination, in Send These to Me, pp. 95-116, 117-152. On status panic and American anti-Semitism, see p. 141. 

Moreover, Althusser argues, such systems of ideas must be material, not just synapses in the brain, since they are embodied, institutionalized, repeated, and lived. You have to act them out. Social agents have ideas (e.g., lawn aesthetics) but these are also actions (e.g., chemical application) and part of a practice (e.g., lawn care). These practices, Althusser adds, in his somewhat off-putting mechanical terminology, are defined by the material ideological apparatus, a whole system of ideas through which the elements of the economy (labor, chemicals, surpluses, etc.) are represented back to individuals as a necessity and a sensible, immediate, daily way of life (home, community, and nature). 

And at each point, the lawn was as much a vehicle for the creation and maintenance of social systems as it was a product of those systems. In every period it served to mediate broader ideologies of citizenship and property, interpellating urban subjects as it went. In the process, it became normalized into a predictable kind of aesthetic, one that is inherently cultural in that it came to be normal, expected, and desirable. A lawn, distinct simply from a grassy yard, was established specifically as smooth, unbroken, and homogeneous ecology. 

Many people feel that a movie isn t a success if it doesn t force viewers to think about an important issue or idea. Others argue that movies are successful as long as they entertain us they don t have to have any ideological, political, or social agenda. What do you think Is being entertaining enough Or should movies do more Why Provide specific examples to support your position. 

T. Szasz, Ideology and Insanity (Garden City, N.Y. Anchot Books, 1970) R. Laing, The Politics of Experience (New York Ballantine Books, 1967) E. Goffman, Asylums Essays on the Social Situations of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Garden City, N.Y Doubleday Anchot, 1961). 

In the postmodern age, in which structuralist theory reigns and claims of artistic autonomy are countered with New Historicist assertions of cultural embeddedness, ideology is believed to create the visual manifestations we call style, and the artist is often considered an almost passive instrument, who records the intellectual fashions of his or her time and place. In this context critics usually are more concerned with the interpretation of intrinsic content than with descriptions of its formal, literally superficial manifestations. As postmodernists we are especially driven to reexamine critically the assumptions about social reality through which modernism and modem artists constmcted themselves. A case in point is the legendary career of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). 

Gorz, A. (1976) Technology, technicians and the class struggle , in A. Gorz (ed) The Division of Labour The Labour Process and Class-Struggle in Modern Capitalism, Harvester Press, Hassocks Habermas, J. (1971) Technology and science as Ideology , in Toward a Rational Society Student Protest, Science and Politics, trans. J. Shapiro, Heinemann Educational, London Habermas, J. (1977) Hannah Arendt s communications concept of power , Social Research, vol 44, pp2-24... 

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