Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness.

Evidence

Both also maintain that “ideology” is not a simple form of false consciousness, to be explained as a set of myths or simple false constructions in the head. All societies require specific ideologies, which provide those systems of meaning, concepts, categories, and representations which make sense of the world, and through which men come to “live” (albeit unconsciously, and through a series of “misrecognitions”), in an imaginary way, their relation to the real, material conditions of their existence (which are only representable to them, as modes of consciousness, in and through ideology). — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racist ideology succeeds by working on real class contradictions, not by manipulation.; Ideologies take effect by working along the grooves of existing popular attitudes.; Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (+9 more)

Related

• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.91)
• Concepts like ideology and representation remain indispensable for understanding society (similarity 0.87)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness (similarity 0.86)
• Ideology is actively created by people, not passively received from above. (similarity 0.85)
• Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. (similarity 0.85)
• Ideology study requires explaining how non-ideas determine ideas without slipping into idealism. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology is actively made from cultural resources, not passively received from above (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology expresses how people live their relation to conditions, not the relation itself. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology theory claims that non-ideas determine the content of ideas. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence. (similarity 0.82)
• Dominant ideologies structure the range of encodings available rather than being deliberately imposed (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.82)
• Ideologies can shatter traditional ideas and empower new ones in a receptive class (similarity 0.82)
• Ideologies are false inflections of real relations, not falsehoods about them (similarity 0.82)
• Explanatory ideologies that deduce everything from a single premise are a recent historical phenomenon. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628
• Dominant culture operates as an active process of incorporation, not static ideology #corroborates (0.70)
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role #expands (0.65)
• Articulation is a non-necessary linkage connecting ideology to social forces under specific conditions #expands (0.60)
• Dominant ideology recruits the dominated by neutralizing rival ideologies’ antagonism #complicates (0.60)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence #expands (0.55)