Ideology, Science, And Fundimentalism Flashcards
Popper observes that science…
Has created a culture of cosmopolitanism, testing eachothers ideas neutrally.
Science is governed by the ability to falsify itself.
This makes religion seem undated and not high minded in the new world of science.
Merton, agreeing with Popper’s observations on Science and the cultural transformation,
makes a point about religion’s survivability and science’s emergence
What?
Religion tends to die if other societal institutions do not support it. Science however was once the same, encouraged by world curious protestants after the calvanist reformation that Weber observed, and the Islamic Scientific discoveries before it.
Is science an open or closed belief system?
. Which thinker came up with the idea it was open because it was based on falsifiability?
. And, I’m contrast to this person, what other theory is there that suggests it’s actually a closed system?
. And, what is the scientific term for a scientific framework?
. Popper.
. Kuhn.
The interpretivists argue that science like all beliefs, is constantly rejecting what appears to not be compatible with the current framework.
. Paradigm
According to ____, to challenge a paradigm is not usually regarded in science, it is ridiculed.
Kuhn
_____ argument is that science does not accept ra_____ ideas easily, and is thus a
Kuhn’s
Radical ideas.
Thus a closed system
Ideology is what?
A framework of ideas and a lens to examine and understand the world around you.
Good theory to remember to do with the ideology of the Bourgeoisie. It comes from Gintis, as in Bowles and Gintis’ theory of the hidden curriculum.
Can you remember what she said? It relates to the poor.
That the riches’ ideology of meritocracy assumes that people are poor often because they’re too stupid to succeed and become rich, especially resonant for those who do actually manage to socially climb.
The theory of ideological hegemony is which Marxist’s theoy?
Antonio Gramsci
Nationalism to functionalists is viewed as a….
Nationalism to Marxists is seen as a…..
. An social integrator.
A civil religions for a secular society (Bell)
‘Psychologised’ (Bruce)
. Am ideology designed to distract, create false class consciousness through creating an illusion of common cause.
According to Mannheim…
There’s 2 types of belief system.
Ideology: An exclusive belief system that privileges people to know and protects interests.
Utopian: Beliefs that agitate and ask for social change to serve the interests of more people or a different group of people.
What are the two types of fundamentalism?
Religious fundamentalism
Secular fundamentalism
What’s a good example of ‘secular fundimentalism’?
Post Communist Yugoslavia,
The marriage of the new regimes ethnic cleansing campaigns was given a religious undertone, religion having been suppressed by the previous communist government.
What’s an example of Davie’s ‘secular fundamentalism’ in France?
2010
France I’m reaction to multiculturalism makes wearing a religious veil in public illegal.
What’s the ‘clash of civilisation’ thesis?
Theory by Neoconservative Samuel Huntington.
The theory goes that globalisation has made nation States a less important facet of identity.
Religion has filled this gap left behind.
However, globalisation has also increased friction as civilisations collide.
The new conflict is the tension of Islam with Western values.
