Dominant-group ideology is never uncontested and always faces internal and external challenges

Evidence

Although dominant groups do attempt to propagate ideas that secure and advance their interests, such ideas seldom reign without some challenge from subordinates, difficulties introduced by unanticipated political or economic exigencies, or the influence of other internalized attitudes and values that might weaken or contradict the ideological commitment of dominant group members. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3386

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Gramscian hegemony theory and Miliband’s critique of ruling-class ideology transmission; also resonates with James Scott’s ‘weapons of the weak’ resistance literature. — connects to: Any text’s ideological conditions of production are always several, never singular — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 480