Introduction To Ideologies

Question 0

False consciousness

Answer 0

A Marxist term denoting the delusion and mystification that prevents subordinate classes from recognising the fact of their own exploitation.

Question 1

Pragmatism

Answer 1

Behaviour shaped in accordance with practical circumstances and goals rather than ideological objectives

Question 2

Hegemony

Answer 2

The ascendancy or domination of one element of a system over others; for Marxists, hegemony implies ideological domination

Question 3

Paradigm

Answer 3

A related set of principles, doctrines and theories that help to structure the process of intellectual enquiry.

Question 4

Classical ideologies

Name them

Answer 4

Liberalism
Conservatism
Socialism 
Nationalism 
Anarchism
Fascism (?)

Question 5

New ideologies

List them

Answer 5

Feminism
Ecologism
Religious fundamentalism
Multiculturalism

Question 6

Social movement

Answer 6

A collective body distinguished by a high level of commitment and political activism, but often lacking clear organisation.

Question 7

Cosmopolitanism

Answer 7

The belief that the world constitutes a single moral, and possibly political, community, in that people have obligations towards other people in the world

Question 8

Universalism

Answer 8

The belief that it is possible to uncover certain values and principles applicable to all people and all societies, regardless of historical, cultural and other differences

Question 9

Particularism

Answer 9

The belief that historical, cultural and other differences between people and societies are more significant than what they have in common