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Explaining citizens’ preference for, say, a war effort or for welfare benefits by pointing to their supposedly distinct values (militarism or equality)—that is, their political ideology—is somewhat akin to explaining that the reason opium induces sleep is its “soporific quality” (cf. Lau et al., 1991).
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Jan 1, 1996 · A concise and accurate definition for ideology today is “a powerful system of ideas.” Ideologies and their impacts, both salient and subtle, manifest everywhere, at all scales.
Though ideology has been much debated in sociology, it has been decribed as ‘the most elusive concept in the whole of the social sciences’ (McLellan, 1995, quoted in Heywood, 2003: 5). Heywood listed the following meanings of ideology: a political belief system; an action-oriented set of political ideas;
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After its first formal usage in the 18th century, intellectuals produced several concepts of ideology. Ideology transformed from a science of ideas to propaganda; from critiques of truth and falsity to necessary strategy; from a focus on consciousness to a focus on practice.
Jan 1, 2014 · The term ideology refers to a system of ideas and beliefs that is dominant within a group or society, and which affects most if not every sphere of social interaction and organisation within it...
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Jun 2, 2016 · Let us proceed with the formal and systematic definitions of ideology. We have already said that ideology is not the distortion of reality. In fact, ideology exists within reality, but it “represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.”
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some suggestions for what may be called an ideology schema that organizes the beliefs of an ideology. Such a schema may be seen as composed of the following fundamental categories (Van Dijk 1998): • Identity: Who are we? Who belongs to us? Who is a member and who can join? • Activities: What do we (have to) do? What is our role in society?
