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Ideology: An Introduction
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Eagleton as discussed by the authors unravels the many different meanings of ideology, and charts the history of the concept from the Enlightenment to postmodernism, in a book designed both for newcomers to the topic and for those already familiar with the debates.Abstract:
In the modern world, ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept. In a book designed both for newcomers to the topic and for those already familiar with the debates, Terry Eagleton unravels the many different meanings of ideology, and charts the history of the concept from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. As well as clarifying a confused topic, this new edition of a now classic work is fully updated in the light of current theoretical debates.read more
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Political conservatism as motivated social cognition.
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Discourse: A Critical Introduction
TL;DR: This engaging 2005 introduction offers a critical approach to discourse, written by an expert uniquely placed to cover the subject for a variety of disciplines, including linguistics, linguistic anthropology and the sociology of language.
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Political ideology: Its structure, functions, and elective affinities
TL;DR: This review examines recent theory and research concerning the structure, contents, and functions of ideological belief systems and considers the consequences of ideology, especially with respect to attitudes, evaluations, and processes of system justification.
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Ideology and discourse analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a multidisciplinary framework that combines a social, cognitive and discursive component is defined, where ideologies are sociocognitively defined as shared representations of social groups, and more specifically as the "axiomatic" principles of such representations.
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Working at a Cynical Distance: Implications for Power, Subjectivity and Resistance
Peter Fleming,André Spicer +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that cynicism is a process through which employees disidentify with cultural prescriptions, yet often still perform them, and they label this the ''ideology interpretation'' because in disidentifying with power, it is inadvertently reproduced at work.