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	DOMINANT IDEOLOGY THESIS
		Dominant ideology thesis is associated with Karl Marx and his claim that each historical era is dominated by the intellectual ideas of its economically and politically ruling class.
		In late capitalism, however, the changing nature of the dominant class in terms of a partial divorce between ownership and control means that the dominant ideology ceases to be crucial for the coherence of the dominant class.
		The following issues are discussed in the article: ethnic domination and its mechanisms; global approach to cultural domination and the center/periphery debate; debates on the repressive culture of rationality of the Frankfurt School, postmodernism and post-structuralism; debate on economic, political and ideological domination, including the “dominant ideology thesis” and Pierre Bourdieu’s structuralism.
	sociologyindex.com /dominant_ideology_thesis.htm (981 words)

	NMEDIAC : Althusser, Ideology, and Theoretical Foundations: Theory and Communication
		Althusser's theories of ideology and interpellation may be readily applied to the study of mass communication, in the context of perpetuation of hegemonic ideology via the mass media.
		Second, the spread of the dominant culture, in a financial and political sense, the U.S. culture, is reaching across the globe at an incredible rate, through the spread of cable television, international media ownership, and distribution of new media.
		Ideology is all around us, and an understanding of its attributes and mechanisms, in the context of mass communication and in other realms, may aid us in evading its influence, or using it to our ends.
	www.ibiblio.org /nmediac/winter2004/gray.html (6112 words)

	James' Essays: Ideology
		The role of ideology, therefore, is to hide the essence of society as it contradicts the appearance, which is beneficial to the ruling class at the time.
		As ideology is based on the 'phenomenological sphere', or the sphere of 'appearances', is fulfils its role by reinforcing the appearances of society, thus further burying the 'essence'.
		Ideology was initially found to be the way in which the contradiction between essence of society and its appearance is hidden.
	interconnected.org /matt/archive/james/Ideology.html (2027 words)

	Dominant ideology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The dominant ideology, in Marxist or marxian theory, is the set of common values and beliefs shared by most people in a given society, framing how the majority think about a range of topics, from art and science to politics and economics.
		This theory is summarized in the slogan: The dominant ideology is the ideology of the dominant class.
		In other words, Marxist critiques of the dominant ideology of capitalism are not normally crude rejections of their content, but rather of their limiting, capitalist form.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dominant_ideology (722 words)

	HFCL TUTORIAL Communication Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The task of a general ideology is to explain the past, the present, and the expected future of the system one is in, whether fully, reliably, usable or not.
		Ideologies are by nature symbolic: what they symbolize may be both imaginary and real, reality being the ultimate test of their validity.
		The dominant ideology in a society is the one which is held by most of the people and defines what is "normal" and "right." For example, in our society it is considered normal for people to wear clothes in public places.
	www.rdillman.com /HFCL/TUTOR/ComEnv/ComEnv3.html (1754 words)

	Coombes: "Sartre's Concept of Bad Faith . . ."
		By the same token, although ideology in the pejorative sense would almost certainly be in operation under such a regime, the unfreedom of the Argives would similarly not be due to that ideology in the first instance, but due to the threat of physical repression (imprisonment, execution, etc.) effected by the ruling elite.
		Ideology, in such cases, is often presented as something which is foisted upon people by an oppressive power which is seeking to protect its own interests.
		The Argive, conversely, is trapped in a vicious circle whereby the dominant ideology, that is to say false consciousness at the level of his subjective experience, ensures that he remains in bad faith in the strong sense, and this latter secures the safe continuation of the dominant ideology.
	oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/criminal.justice/coombs01.htm (6800 words)

	Anthropology and Popular Culture
		One feature of ideology that was overlooked by early Marxists is that ideology is a process of practice as well as of thought.
		However ideology is portrayed, whether as ideas or as actions, the strong suggestion remains that a single powerful ideology reigns supreme in modern life.
		Such a claim for a "dominant ideology" that serves elites and oppresses the powerless has been criticized by Abercrombie, Hill and Turner in The Dominant Ideology Thesis (1980), by James Scott in Domination and the Arts of Resistance (1990), and by Terry Eagleton in Ideology (1991).
	www.uwm.edu /~wash/poplecideo.htm (1674 words)

	English 495: Marxist Cultural Theory
		If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life process as the inversion of objects on their retina does from their physical life process.
		In my practice, ideology critique means subjecting texts actively asserts the critic's radical, contestatory position (1) against traditional "sedimented" interpretations of the text in order to resist the pull of critical orthodoxy and institutional hegemony, and (2) against the dominant ideology of the social formation in which the text was produced.
		Ideology critique encompasses the Althusserian concept of "symptomatic reading" as a practice which strives to reveal and examine the discursive conditions which enable texts to be (re)produced at particular historical moments (Althusser 1982, 253-4).
	www.english.ilstu.edu /strickland/495/ideology.html (4663 words)

	Monthly Review January 2001 Sergej Flere
		Ideologies request an immediate commitment and action to achieve what is considered possible and necessary, and to counter other political orientations, movements, and truths.
		The dominant ideology (the one legitimating the existing state of global domination) is complex and cannot be reduced to a single catch phrase.
		The present dominant ideology in the world is doubtless heir to the ideology of the "free world." "Free world" served as the code phrase for underscoring the absence (or at least shortage) of individual political liberties in the communist world.
	www.monthlyreview.org /101flere.htm (2432 words)

	LiteratureClassics.com -- Essay -- Have We Seen the End of Ideology?
		Ideology has been defined in several different ways; I assume the reader is familiar with its basic implication, that of the word signifying existing systems of thought and belief which are produced by and are reflective of social constructs.
		With postmodernity, another point of clash lies not the existence of ideology, but in the contention that a single dominant ideology ceases to be ideology, but qualifies as hegemonical dominance.
		A poststructuralist view of the impossibility of several forms of ideology co-existing is flawed at its inception since it effects a closure and excludes the possibility of there ever having been co-existing ideologies.
	www.literatureclassics.com /showessayprint.asp?IDNo=990 (1174 words)

	Ideology
		Ideologies are connected with economic institutions, and when these change, so do the ideological beliefs and practices.
		Ideology is a process accomplished by the so-called thinker consciously indeed, but with a false consciousness.
		Ideology refers to ideas that represent a society in its best light, as if it were the highest expression of universal ideals.
	spruce.flint.umich.edu /~simoncu/485/ideology.htm (1666 words)

	Theory of Hegemony and Ideology
		The dominant ideology in any society is a set of common sense assumptions that legitimates the existing distribution of power.
		Ideology is something that other people have, a dogmatic closed-mindedness and inflexibility from which all right-thinking folks are miraculously free.
		Ideology takes on a particularly important role in welding together a ruling bloc, and in ensuring others' consent to be ruled.
	www.dangerouscitizen.com /Articles/244.aspx (3299 words)

	Ernest Mandel: Leninist Theory of Organisation (Chap.2)
		The Marxian proposition that “the dominant ideology of every society is the ideology of the dominant class”; appears at first glance to conflict with the character of the proletarian revolution as the conscious overturning of society by the proletariat, as a product of the conscious, independent activity of the wage-earning masses.
		The dominant ideology of every society is the ideology of the dominant class in the sense that the latter has control over the means of ideological production which society has at its disposal (the church, schools, mass media, etc.) and uses these means in its own class interests.
		As long as class rule is on the upswing, stable and hence hardly questioned, the ideology of the dominant class will also dominate the consciousness of the oppressed class.
	www.marxists.org /archive/mandel/196x/leninism/ch02.htm (2167 words)

	Dominate Ideology - FrostCloud Forums
		The dominant ideology, like all ideologies or points of view, is narrow and dominated by the self interest of the commanding group who establish the view and maintain its superior position within the society.
		Being a partial point of view the dominant ideology is biased, distorted and unaware of its own assumptions.
		This dominant ideology exercises the political control of the citizens in the same fashion as the consuming citizen is controlled by the same dominant ideology.
	www.frostcloud.com /forum/showthread.php?t=8259 (2707 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ideology - defined in general as the shared beliefs and values held in an unquestioning manner by a culture - exerts a powerful influence upon a culture.
		Those who are marginalized in the culture are most aware of the ways in which an ideology supports the dominant class in the society.
		Those who enjoy the fruits of belonging to a dominant group of the society barely generally are filled with what Marx called "false consciousness." Since it is not in their interest to notice the ways in which an economic structure marginalizes others, they tend to buy into an ideology that supports that structure.
	www.assumption.edu /users/ady/HHGateway/Gateway/Marxistlitcrit.html (526 words)

	LANGUAGE, IDENTITY AND LIBERATION: A CRITIQUE OF THE TERM AND CONCEPT "PEOPLE OF COLOR" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Somehow, this process is a "mimic," a duplication of the process of consensus of dominant ideology, but it is always – here and there – the powerless subject who suffers.
		When passion and concept find their dynamic unity there is a possibility that a discourse might be able to express that which language itself cannot express; or that which the thinking of a certain moment has not yet been able to think.
		This fixation has a long tradition, and therefore, is difficult to break away from, to the point that most terms used to generalize the amalgam of "minorities" within the United States only reflect their dependence on dominant ideology.
	www.leftcurve.org /LC17-1articles/ColorCrit.html (2412 words)

	CCTP797-ideology
		Ideology first appeared in English in 1796, as a direct translation of the new French word ideologie which had been proposed in that year by the rationalist philosopher Destutt de Tracy.
		If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from their physical life process.
		Ideology is then abstract and false thought, in a sense directly related to the original conservative use but with the alternative — knowledge of real material conditions and relationships — differently stated.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/irvinem/CCTP797/CCTP797-ideology.html (2363 words)

	Rutgers Writing Program - 201 - Gradatorium: Follow a Student - Paper #2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dominant culture sets up an ideology that acts as a guideline to live life in a "proper" way.
		People that oppose dominant ideology band together to form what are called sub cultures, or groups that maintain an alternate way of living life, that possess a system to live by.
		One example of a sub culture taken over by dominant ideology, are Trekkers.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~wp/courses/201/gradatorium/fas/fas_paper2.html (649 words)

	Englishness and Ideology - tutorial notes
		Ideology (set of ideas) is offered to the rest of society as if it were the natural order of things.
		Ideology is THE central issue of the course and from now on the course is based round that.
		Ideology - a group of ideas, offered by a small group of people who persuade the other people to accept these ideas to keep them in power.
	www.mantex.co.uk /ou/a319/a319-02.htm (1134 words)

	RRTF - Race Relations at F&M, report
		In the results of the 1999 survey, I found support for Jackman and Muha's theory of dominant group ideology, which, though not expressed in these terms by the authors, may be seen as a modern day form of racism; its ultimate goal is for whites to maintain their advantage over other racial groups.
		As Jackman and Muha write, the dominant group "develops such an ideology without contrivance; it flows naturally from their side of experience as they seek to impose a sense of order on the pattern of social relations" (cited in McClelland and Auster 1990).
		For students of color, who have experienced first-hand what it is like to not be in the advantaged group, this ideology is difficult to battle because it is based in strong white-American ideals which put blinders on to the oppressive past and present inequalities among races.
	www.library.fandm.edu /events/1999b.html (1844 words)

	Monterey County Herald \| 10/30/2006 \| When no ideology is dominant
		Sometimes liberalism is dominant and sometimes conservatism is dominant, but sometimes there is no dominant ideology.
		We're about to enter another of those periods without a dominant ideology.
		In the liberal era, the urban Northeast dominated the landscape.
	www.montereyherald.com /mld/mcherald/news/editorial/15883697.htm (647 words)

	Cultural Studies Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Another way the dominant ideology is focused on through the media is by presenting those not in the mainstream of society in a manner that tends to mute them.
		In response to the media acting within the frame of reference of the dominant ideology, some British scholars claim this is because the working class has no common ideology.
		The dominant ideology is often supported through the comments provided by the "radicals." This is a result of the editing process that occurs to form the final product.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~jf399497/cs.htm (614 words)

	UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
		According to the Marxist perspective, the ideological hegemony of the dominant group(s) in society depends on
		From the functionalist perspective, acceptance of the dominant ideology occurs due to
		In the United States the dominant ideology tends to blame _______when an individual fails to experience upward mobility.
	home.hawaii.rr.com /igber/311Final.htm (1392 words)

	MYTH AND LITERATURE AS POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
		Margaret Gonzalez-Perez Ph.D. Political ideology plays a crucial role in the development of the nation-state and the basis of that ideology often lies in apriori mythic knowledge.
		Drawing upon the works of noted scholars, this study examines the myth of the state and its role in unifying a people and forging a sense of nationalism that extends across the divisions within a society and maintains control.
		They have to be institutionalized in order to find not just an intellectual existence in society, but, so to speak, a material one as well” (1973, p.314).
	www.lsus.edu /la/journals/ideology/contents/mythandliterature.htm (5496 words)

	Seeking Green Societies: From Expansionism to Holistic Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Organic ideologies which perceived the cosmos, nature, and humanity as a nurturing living whole embodying a soul, spirit, and emotions were to be suppressed by a dominant ideology that was overly linear in orientation.
		This active and tangible ideology supported and reinforced by key actors, institutions, and processes has, for example, dramatically reduced biological and cultural diversity; legitimized mass tropical, temperate and boreal deforestation; created and accelerated stratospheric ozone layer depletion; and polluted the earth’s air, land and water.
		The uniformity and homogeneity of the dominant ideology is not to be questioned, but rather understood as ‘truth,’ science’; and the only ‘authentic’ construction of reality.
	egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj13/boston1.html (2668 words)

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