Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification

Evidence

As Miles and Brown note regarding race and racism, this meaning and process of informing, the ideology or ideological content is the signification of visual or other products as the criterion through which individuals and groups are identified and subsequently understood and interpreted, that in the process attains societal validity and justification. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 819

Categorization

• DEFINE: Adopts Miles and Brown’s conception of ideological racism, showing Allen builds on the sociology-of-race literature rather than inventing an Islamophobia-specific concept.
• XREF: Directly connects to the Runnymede ‘open vs closed views’ framework and to Halliday’s critique, situating Allen among the ideological/discursive defners. — connects to: Mass propaganda transforms ideology into a principle of self-definition for atomized individuals; Each society has a regime of truth that determines what counts as true; Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 823 (+9 more)

Related

• Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. (similarity 0.88)
• The meaning stereotyping produces is best understood as ideological (similarity 0.85)
• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology operates through belief about what others believe (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is an ideology sustaining negative meaning about Muslims. (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other (similarity 0.80)
• Concepts like ideology and representation remain indispensable for understanding society (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia centers on recognition of Muslim-ness and its ideological meaning (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.79)
• Mass propaganda transforms ideology into a principle of self-definition for atomized individuals (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia is a fluid neo-ideology built from reinterpreted historical material (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia remains legitimate while racism has become illegitimate (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. #expands (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 823
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence #expands (0.80)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness #corroborates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628