Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought.

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: Ideology masks class by fragmenting people into individuals bound as consumers and citizens; Racist ideology succeeds by working on real class contradictions, not by manipulation.; Workers accept hegemonic economic frames while acting oppositionally at local level. (+10 more)

Related

• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. (similarity 0.91)
• Ideology study requires explaining how non-ideas determine ideas without slipping into idealism. (similarity 0.86)
• Ideology theory claims that non-ideas determine the content of ideas. (similarity 0.86)
• Ideology expresses how people live their relation to conditions, not the relation itself. (similarity 0.85)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness (similarity 0.85)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.85)
• Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence. (similarity 0.85)
• Ideologies are false inflections of real relations, not falsehoods about them (similarity 0.85)
• Ideologies can shatter traditional ideas and empower new ones in a receptive class (similarity 0.85)
• Concepts like ideology and representation remain indispensable for understanding society (similarity 0.84)
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. (similarity 0.84)
• Ideology is actively created by people, not passively received from above. (similarity 0.83)
• Ideology operates through belief about what others believe (similarity 0.83)
• Studying non-events concerns imagined possibility, not just ideas or mentalities. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. #corroborates (0.85)
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them #contradicts (0.70)
• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness #corroborates (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628