Concepts like ideology and representation remain indispensable for understanding society

Evidence

In this arena Althusser gives pride of place to what he calls “the School-Family” couple. He understands “ruling ideology” here in terms of his exposition (summarized earlier)—as the “system of ideas and representations” by means of which men understand and “live” an imaginary relation to their real conditions of existence: “What is represented in ideology is therefore not the system of the real relations which governs the existence of men, but the imaginary relation of those individuals to the real relations in which they live.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 909 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

Related

• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. (similarity 0.87)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness (similarity 0.86)
• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.85)
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them (similarity 0.85)
• Ideology expresses how people live their relation to conditions, not the relation itself. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology is actively created by people, not passively received from above. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology study requires explaining how non-ideas determine ideas without slipping into idealism. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideologies are material relations enacted through institutions and practices (similarity 0.83)
• The reality principle is itself the highest form of ideology (similarity 0.83)
• Connotation is where visual signs acquire ideology by intersecting with cultural meaning structures. (similarity 0.83)
• Ideology theory claims that non-ideas determine the content of ideas. (similarity 0.83)
• Ideological unity forms through connotative condensation and an axial interpellation (similarity 0.81)
• Ideologies connect to subjects through contingent, breakable articulations rather than necessity (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology is actively made from cultural resources, not passively received from above (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Ideologies connect to subjects through contingent, breakable articulations rather than necessity #expands (0.60)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence #expands (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 909
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them #expands (0.60)
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role #expands (0.55)
• Ideology and material practice relate through systematic disjuncture, not correspondence #expands (0.55) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 890
• Ideology appears as manifest surface while its real foundations are hidden #expands (0.50)
• Ideologies change when subordinate elements of old ideology become primary #expands (0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 629
• Ideology reproduces most effectively through non-biased professional practice #expands (0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 810
• Ideological unity forms through connotative condensation and an axial interpellation #expands (0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 629
• Connotative codes link visual signs to ideology, history, and power. #expands (0.50)
• Current ideologies in AI reflect historical eugenics concepts. #exemplifies (0.35) — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 396