Ideology study requires explaining how non-ideas determine ideas without slipping into idealism.

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ideology theory claims that non-ideas determine the content of ideas. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 324; Studying non-events concerns imagined possibility, not just ideas or mentalities.; Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features (+3 more)

Related

• Ideology theory claims that non-ideas determine the content of ideas. (similarity 0.92)
• Studying non-events concerns imagined possibility, not just ideas or mentalities. (similarity 0.92)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness (similarity 0.86)
• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.86)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.85)
• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology expresses how people live their relation to conditions, not the relation itself. (similarity 0.83)
• Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features (similarity 0.83)
• Without a concept of ideology, culture’s role in reproducing production cannot be grasped. (similarity 0.82)
• Concepts like ideology and representation remain indispensable for understanding society (similarity 0.82)
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role (similarity 0.82)
• Ideologies are false inflections of real relations, not falsehoods about them (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology in everyday life matters more than formalized class-specific ideology (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features #corroborates (0.70)
• Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms #corroborates (0.60)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness #expands (0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628
• Intellectuals must admit ideology rather than claim value-free science #corroborates (0.40) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 435