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Ideology Handout: Professor John Lye |
 | | Ideology is a term developed in the Marxist tradition to talk about how cultures are structured in ways that enable the group holding power to have the maximum control with the minimum of conflict. |
| | While the concept of ideology is most generally associated with power relations, we have to keep from being too simplistic. |
| | Ideology, writes Althusser, is "a representation of the imaginary relation of individuals to the real condition of existence." Further, Althusser writes, ideology creates us as persons: it "hails" us, calls us into being. |
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