Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action.

Evidence

Unlike more historically rooted definitions and understandings, to better understand ideology in terms of contemporary Islamophobia, Thompson’s ‘neutral conception’ theory of ideology would appear to be preferential. Here ideology is conceived both singularly and variously in terms systems: systems of thought, belief and so on, or even just systems of signifiers or symbols – symbolic symbols – any or all of which pertain to influence or impact upon social action, interaction and response as well as shaping and determining that understanding and meaning and the associated attitudes that significantly allude to a previously referred to concept, the social consensus. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 823

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ideology in the neutral-conception sense as systems of meaning-producing signifiers.
• XREF: connects to: Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 819; Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628; Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role (+5 more)

Related

• Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification (similarity 0.88)
• The meaning stereotyping produces is best understood as ideological (similarity 0.86)
• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. (similarity 0.85)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness (similarity 0.85)
• Concepts like ideology and representation remain indispensable for understanding society (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia is defined through Thompson’s neutral conception of ideology (similarity 0.83)
• Ideology operates through belief about what others believe (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology study requires explaining how non-ideas determine ideas without slipping into idealism. (similarity 0.82)
• Ideologies are crafted as political weapons, not theories (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia is an ideology, not a set of actions or practices (similarity 0.81)
• The original meaning of ideology was the science of how ideas derive from sensations (similarity 0.81)
• Thompson’s neutral conception of ideology sheds its class-based historical baggage. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology theory claims that non-ideas determine the content of ideas. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness #expands (0.95) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role #responds-to (0.75)
• Articulation is a non-necessary linkage connecting ideology to social forces under specific conditions #qualifies (0.75)
• Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out. #expands (0.75)
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them #complicates (0.72)
• Serious attention to ideology in its own terms strengthens rather than weakens Marxism. #responds-to (0.72)