Political Belief Systems: An Introduction to Ideology

Von 24 $ /Std

Everyone who engages with politics (which is to say, everyone) has an ideology. But not everyone is conscious of- let alone consistent in their ideology. In fact, most people’s conscious politics are nothing more than an inconsistent aesthetic. But anyone who has a world they long to see owes it to themselves to at least be self aware of their own ideology, and they should probably also familiarize themselves with others as well. I can help on both fronts.

This 10-session class serves as an introduction to the concept of political ideology. We will begin with a brief overview to various major academic theories of ideology, before moving on to a taxonomical survey of different ideological genuses and families, both “thick-centered” ideologies, that is, ideologies with a comprehensive core specific enough that they can stand on their own as it were, such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and fascism, and “thin centered” ideologies, which have much broader and hence much less specific cores, and hence must attach themselves to other thick centered host ideologies in order to fully manifest themselves, such as populism, nationalism, feminism, and ecologism.

Zusätzliche Informationen

This class is calibrated for the college level but high schoolers are welcome to take it if they’re interested.

Ort

Online aus Vereinigte Staaten

Alter

Jugendliche (13-17 Jahre alt)

Erwachsene (18-64 Jahre alt)

Unterrichtsniveau

Anfänger

Mittel

Dauer

90 Minuten

Unterrichtet in

Englisch

Fachkenntnisse

Politikwissenschaft

Philosophie

Verfügbarkeit einer typischen Woche

(GMT -05:00)

New York

Online via Webcam

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

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Sun

00-04

04-08

08-12

12-16

16-20

20-24

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