Dominant ideologies structure the range of encodings available rather than being deliberately imposed

Evidence

The selection of codes, those which are the preferred codes in the different domains, and which appear to embody the “natural” explanations which most members of the society would accept (that is, which appear naturally to incarnate the “rationality” of our particular society), casts these problematic events, consensually, somewhere within the repertoire of the dominant ideologies. We must remember that this is not a single, unitary, but a plurality of dominant discourses: that they are not deliberately selected by encoders to “reproduce events within the horizon of the dominant ideology,” but constitute the field of meanings within which they must choose. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 921

Categorization

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