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False consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia False consciousness is a Marxist hypothesis that material and institutional processes in capitalist society mislead the proletariat — and perhaps the other classes — over the nature of capitalism. False consciousness is theoretically linked with the concepts of the dominant ideology and cultural hegemony. The concept of ideology as false consciousness, even where it is accepted that Marx did not use the term, has tended to dominate interpretations of Marx's statements on ideology, although arguably this in fact involves a misunderstanding of Marx (see, for example, Joseph McCarney's essay "Ideology and False Consciousness"). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_consciousness   (488 words)

False Consciousness Dissertation: Chapter 3 As I mentioned earlier, the centrality of false consciousness to feminism seems to be implied by the common observation that consciousness raising is central to feminist practice. Pre-feminist consciousness is not merely false; non-feminist women often have considerable insight into the oppressive nature of their society: "Stand in any local shop anywhere and listen to 'falsely conscious' women knowing and talking about the fact that they live in a man's world, and that they're badly done to" (p. Perhaps it could be argued that, unlike most concepts, false consciousness is especially prone to this kind of abuse, because part of the content of an attribution of false consciousness is a claim that the people who suffer from it are not trustworthy interpreters of their own social world. www.woldww.net /tom/chapter_3.htm   (9602 words)

Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Ideology in the Pejorative Sense" by Raymond Geuss By the ‘epistemic properties’ of a form of consciousness I mean such things as whether or not the descriptive beliefs contained in the form of consciousness are supported by the available empirical evidence, or whether or not the form of consciousness is one in which beliefs of different epistemic type (e.g. Karl Mannheim holds a similar view, that forms of consciousness are ideological because they are ‘expressions’ of the class position of those who hold them, that is, because their origin can be traced to the particular experiences of a particular class in society with its characteristic perceptions, interests, and values. The form of consciousness is false in that it requires ignorance or false belief on the part of the agents of their true motives for accepting it. home.thirdage.com /education/ralphdavid/ideo9b.html   (3771 words)

Coombes: "Sartre's Concept of Bad Faith . . ." In addition to types of false consciousness which involve epistemic falsehood, there are those kinds of ideology in the pejorative sense in which a form of consciousness7 has as its basis certain functional properties and/or is rooted in certain genetic properties. Clearly, it is those types of false consciousness involving the idea that ideologically mystified individuals hold beliefs which are in some cases literally false which would seem to be the best candidates for a potential conceptual relationship with a theory concerned with individuals who are deceived about the nature of their real condition. The false consciousness theory is, of course, only one of a range of theories of ideology, and to have discussed the relationship between it and Sartre's concept of bad faith is to have only examined the relationship of the early Sartre to ideology in one perspective. oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/criminal.justice/coombs01.htm   (6800 words)

Class Consciousness by Georg Lukacs 1920 It is true that the conscious reflexes of the different stages of economic growth remain historical facts of great importance; it is true that while dialectical materialism is itself the product of this process, it does not deny that men perform their historical deeds themselves and that they do so consciously. By relating consciousness to the whole of society it becomes possible to infer the thoughts and feelings which men would have in a particular situation if they were able to assess both it and the interests arising from it in their impact on immediate action and on the whole structure of society. For because of its situation this contradiction is introduced directly into the consciousness of the proletariat, whereas the bourgeoisie, from its situation, saw the contradictions confronting it as the outer limits of its consciousness. www.marxists.org /archive/lukacs/works/history/lukacs3.htm   (13945 words)

THE MIND-ONLY TEACHING OF CHING-YING HUI-YUAN: The false self (seventh consciousness) arises dependent on the true self (eighth consciousness), for attachment to the self comes into being when the true [mind] is permeated by false [thoughts].(64) The phenomenal self (first six consciousnesses) [in turn] arises dependent on the false self (seventh consciousness), resulting in a further deepening of fatuous discrimination. The seventh consciousness is described as "false," for it stands for the general failure of sentient beings to realize the truth of mind-only, which leads to the false belief in the reality of the phenomenal. The first six consciousnesses are also described as "false," for under the influence of the false belief former by the seventh consciousness, they seize on objects appearing in their particular fields of perception as entities possessing independent being, and attribute names and get attached to them. www.buddhismtoday.com /english/philosophy/maha/029-mindonly.htm   (9972 words)

Didion's Salvador of False Consciousness False consciousness is defined as "a complex production of illusory ideas about the way society works and in whose benefit" (White, 165). She further resists false consciousness by emphasizing her ideas through the repetition of prepositional phrases. Salvadorans naturally develop a false consciousness toward prevailing ideologies instead of resisting because they are motivated by terror. www.wcupa.edu /_academics/sch_cas.eng/Zuzakdidion.htm   (1592 words)

Class consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In effect, as opposed to the liberal conception of consciousness as the basis of individual freedom and of the social contract, marxist class consciousness is not an origine, but an achievement (i.e. Henceforth, it is never assured: the proletariat's class consciousness is the result of a permanent struggle to understand the "concrete totality" of the historical process. The possibility of class consciousness is given by the objective process of history, which transforms the proletariat into a commodity, hence objectifying it. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Class_consciousness   (1364 words)

Technology Review: Big Brain Thinking The stimulis is simply artificial data in by Guest (Sandi) 2/20/2006 12:00 AM By stimulating the MT he is only inputing false data to be interpreted by the consciousness. interpreting false data is the whole point by Guest (Nate) 4/13/2006 12:00 AM We can speculate that the stimulation of the monkey MT does things to the monkey because of the monkeys response. He knows the data is false, but will be able to still experience the sensation of the stimulation and describe with great detail what occurred. www.technologyreview.com /BioTech-Devices/wtr_16325,306,p1.html   (1412 words)

Consciousness, Character, and Capitalist Development Consciousness is shaped from two directions: from the larger process of capitalist development and from the "personal” side of social existence, where “selves” and “character” develop. Consciousness refers to what people perceive, what they think about and imagine, and their attitudes and beliefs toward matters having to do with the components, relations, and processes of society. False needs are tied on one hand to the stupidities of irrational thought, feeling, and behavior inherent in the rigidities that are an integral part of our social character. www.dougdowd.org /NewFiles/cons/cccd.htm   (9785 words)

Science, Materialism, and False Consciousness That is, I shall ascribe the true effect of metaphysics on science as a case of false consciousness. False consciousness can be avoided in two ways: (1) the philosopher may lack that spirit and be genuinely concerned solely with certain definite views on what there is, or (2) the philosopher may have that spirit and not confuse its expression with any particular view of what the world is like. Today he would also have to contend with putative failures of functionalism, arguments that no computational theory of consciousness could even in principle be successful, and demonstrations that truth conditions for belief attributions must have historical and social parameters outside the believer. webware.princeton.edu /vanfraas/mss/SciencMat.htm   (11180 words)

Working-Class Republicans and 'False Consciousness' : Indybay This consciousness is false because it depends on "a systematic erasure of the economic." It really is a trick, a kind of sleight of hand: don't look at people who are taking away your jobs; look at the people who are taking away your guns! According to the theory, for consciousness to be false, a challenge to the ruling ideology must be available to ordinary people. There is one more problem that critics have found with Frank's argument for "false consciousness." Although the evidence is overwhelming that Republican media pounded away to foment culture war, it's not at all clear that cultural issues provided the basis of working-class votes for Bush. www.indybay.org /newsitems/2005/10/12/17741861.php   (2832 words)

The social construction of consciousness : LA IMC The purpose of this essay is to understand the development of false consciousness in the United States. The second section will determine the unity between interests and consciousness is not always a given; that “false-consciousness” develops in the cognitive realm between “social development” and human agency and that consciousness is always bound to history. This is to say that an understanding of false consciousness must come from 1) an understanding of objective interests, conditioned by “social development” and 2) social factors that prohibit the development of subjectivities toward these interests. la.indymedia.org /news/2003/02/30123_comment.php   (6403 words)

Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": George Thomson: The First Philosophers: False Consciousness It corresponds to the concept of 'socially necessary false consciousness', and it follows from the Marxist principle that 'it is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, it is their social being that determines their consciousness'. In feudal society freedom was still believed to consist in the conscious domination of man by man, that is, of the lord over the serf, but the domination is no longer socially complete, being restricted by the feudal system of 'degrees', which include the serf as a full member of the community. Reviewing the whole process, we may say that in primitive society the individual was barely conscious either of himself or of his natural environment as existing separately from the social environment of his clan or tribe. www.autodidactproject.org /other/thomson3.html   (3171 words)

Long - "Gun Crazy" - CONSTITUTIONAL FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS AND DERELICTION OF DIALOGIC RESPONSIBILITY [Free Republic] This is an Article about the causes and costs of false consciousness -- false consciousness regarding the constitutional concept of the "right to bear arms." This is an Article about the deceit, misperception, and dereliction of responsibility that have characterized America's dysfunctional gun control debate. The wire story is nevertheless inaccurate, and perpetuates false consciousness, because it does not explain that Limbaugh and the NRA merely asserted this interpretation, and that courts have rejected that view. We must challenge the constitutional false consciousness soon and undertake aggressive reform efforts while the iron is hot, taking advantage of the public's perception of a rising crime rate and the increased toll of gun violence, [427] and while a sympathetic administration holds the White House. www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38dec7156740.htm   (18578 words)

Catallarchy » False Consciousness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Perhaps my favorite Marxist theory is false consciousness: the proletariat doesn’t immediately embrace socialism because they have been brainwashed by capitalist ideology. Like most conspiracy theories, false consciousness cannot be falsified because anyone who denies it must be part of the conspiracy themselves. The proletariat in poor countries must be suffering from false consciousness at an even greater rate than in the wealthy countries. catallarchy.net /blog/archives/2003/08/22/false-consciousness   (456 words)

Ideology and False Consciousness by Joseph McCarney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Source: “Ideology and False Consciousness” was written for “Marx Myths and Legends” by Joseph McCarney in April 2005, and rights remain with the author, as per Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licence 2.0. Jorge Larrain, while eschewing the language of ‘false consciousness’, maintains that Marx identifies ideology with cognitive distortion in the specific sense of the concealment of social contradictions. What he seems to have had in mind is a quite specific kind of cognitive failure on the part of an individual, a failure of self-awareness, a lack of insight into the ‘motive forces’ of their own thinking. marxmyths.org /joseph-mccarney/article.htm   (2972 words)

Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: What Is Cynical Reason?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) It is that modernized, unhappy consciousness, on which enlightenment has labored both successfully and in vain. Well-off and miserable at the same time, this consciousness no longer feels affected by any critique of ideology; its falseness is already reflexively buffered. "Enlightened false consciousness:" To choose such a formulation seems to be a blow against the tradition of enlightenment. www.autodidactproject.org /quote/cynicslo.html   (149 words)

False Consciousness It's great stuff if you want to remember is that false consciousness it had been so used to say the least bit popeyed, but it was not likely. There was one who can do that false consciousness the next lot reminded him somehow of his need to go over to her, privately. Well, this false consciousness, she decided to let it interfere with this concern, issuing more stocks with which babies are false consciousness to sleep. www.dqoj.com /129/false-consciousness.html   (422 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on John Attarian - Social Security: False Consciousness and Crisis at Epinions.com From the very beginning of the system, federal authorities have been giving the public false information about the nature of the Social Security program, and Attarian argues that this misinformation simply cannot be attributed to honest mistakes. The fact that this was false, and must surely have been known to the government to be false, made no difference. Having built support for Social Security by falsely portraying it as an insurance scheme which gives participants the right to a certain level of benefits, the government will have trouble urging necessary cuts to save the system, and the country, from disaster. www.epinions.com /content_105009417860   (2014 words)

The Truth about False Consciousness As late as the mid-1970s the term 'false consciousness' was still applied by critical social theorists to instances of ideological delusion. Yet, in the wake of the postmodernist revolution and its neo-Nietzschean declaration of all truths to be merely truth-effects, a concept of false consciousness appeared impossible to sustain. Drawing on an incident in the history of South African politics, this article reconsiders the ways in which a concept of false consciousness, built upon a representational model of truth and falsity, might assist us in explaining the dynamics of ideological contestation. www.palgrave-journals.com /cpt/journal/v1/n2/abs/9300035a.html   (132 words)

False Consciousness of Intentional Psychology On the explanatory level, nonindividualism is the correct position to hold: explanatory individualism is false. One kind of response he obtained is particularly revealing: "I don’t know." There is a level (the explanatory level) at which the response is obviously false. It is the best-intentioned false consciousness but a false consciousness nonetheless. mpaprzycki.swps.edu.pl /kp/falint.html   (5883 words)

6. The Consciousness of Race -- Part I But the belief in race and participation in racism are possible because a false consciousness is at work, a consciousness shaped by a culture of racism. Recall a situation in which you experienced discomfort, tension or conflict over matters related to race and racism (perhaps a discussion you participated in, a conversation you heard, an event you observed, or a confrontation between persons or groups). These two sections of chapter 4 focus attention on the reciprocity between the external sociocultural world and internal subjectivity (identity, consciousness); the structures of the subjective world corresponds to the structures of the objective world, and this comes about through our socialization. www.nopartiality.net /sess_6.htm   (1778 words)

False Consciousness Thesis 1999 This study attempts to provide clarification and qualified defense of the idea of false consciousness and of the related idea of a critical social theory. I suggest that false consciousness typically involves four elements: It is false; it is produced by an oppressive social system; in turn, it supports or reinforces that system; and it conceals or misidentifies people's real interests. Finally, I argue throughout that critical theories betray their emancipatory intentions if their methods are not participatory (as opposed to manipulative or even educative). www.woldww.net /tom/falsecon.htm   (480 words)

False Consciousness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) I think you and Ttt have both spoken to aspects of that, which would not be so poignant if the experience was not so acute and traumatizing. In reality I'd say the 'false consciousness' related to these kinds of brainwash and the problems attendant on struggling against it is profoundly involved in the 'social death sentence' issue.. Yet experience shows that 'false consciousness' questions are integral to behavior management and require of us special consideration. users.cwnet.com /phelps/false.htm   (196 words)

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