Ideologies of globalization Flashcards
who wrote the Ideologies of globalization
Manfred B. Steger
“current fragmentation of established ideologies and the revived uncertainty concerning whether ideology still exists”
Michael Freeden
Michael Freeden two fertile lines of inquiry
- question ‘the implicit holism in the notion of an ideological family’
- ‘query the dominant conventions of classifying and categorizing ideologies, with a view to establishing the degree to which they constitute useful clusters’
what did Michael Freeden say about globalism and its status on ideology
“it is far too early to pronounce on globalism’s status as an ideology”
First line of Freeden’s inquiry
‘globalism; as a possible ‘holistic contender’ but retreated back to the sceptical view that ‘it is far too early to pronounce on globalism’s status as an ideology’
Second line of Freeden’s inquiry
recommends imaginative ‘thought-exercises’ with the aim of providing ‘insight into some organizing feature according to which ideologies can be reclassified’
select features of human behavior by Freeden
human behavior
- pride
- fear
- gregariousness
- complacency
- vulnerability
- insubordination
- self-depreciation
virtues of Freeden’s article
- political belief systems demand periodic scholarly reassessments
- willing to revise/change outdated systems
- thought-exercises to redraw old boundaries and to reclassify
what did Manfred B. Steger say about globalism and its status on ideology
‘it is not too early to pronounce on globalism’s status as an ideology’
Michael Freeden globalization
‘range of processes nesting under one rather unwieldy epithet’
thick economic, political, and cultural interconnections and global flows that make currently existing political borders and economic barriers irrelevant
globality
different social manifestations of globality
- values of individualism and competition
- economic system of private property
- embody more communal and cooperative social arrangements, including less capitalistic economic relations
confined to a set of complex, sometime contradictory, social processes that are changing our current social condition based on the modern system of independent nation-states
globalization
when did large segments of the population both in global North and South accepted globalism’s core laims
mid 1990s
said that globalization creates ‘strong discourse’, globalism has proven to be difficult to resits because ot relies on the power of ‘common sense’ that is, the widespread belief that its prescriptive program ultimately derives from an objective description of the ‘real world’
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Zygmunt Bauman
notes that the “constant repitition, public recitation, and ‘performance’ of an ideology’s core claims tend to have the capacity to produce what they name”
Judith Butler
insists that “full-blown thought systems typically contain ‘six meaning’”
Terry Eagleton
defines ideologies in terms of ‘three fundamental modes of interpellation’
Goran Therborn
influenced Goran Therborn
Louis Althusser
emphasizes ideologies’ comprehensive cognitive functions
Teun van Dijk
associates mature ideologies with ‘five operational modes’
John Thompson
“mature ideologies display unique features anchored in distinct conceptual morphologies”
Michael Freeden
Freeden’s three useful criteria for determining the status of a particular belief system
- degree of uniqueness and morphological sophistication
- context-bound responsiveness to a broad range of political issues
- ability to produce effective conceptual decontestation chains
crucial process in the formation of thought systems because it specifies the meanings of the core concepts by arranging them in a ‘pattern’ or ‘configuration’ that links them with other concepts in a meaningful way
decontestation
simple semantic chains whose conceptual links convey authoritative meanings that facilitate collective decision-making
effective decontestation structures
‘ideological claim’– endow though systems with specific meaning that benefit particular social groups
semantic chains
how does a rising thought system become thicker
greater the ability of a rising thought system to produce appealing decontestation chains, the more developed or ‘thicker’ it becomes
claim 1
globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets
