Pluralism is an ideology resting on the pseudoconcepts of democracy, media, and market.

Evidence

Pluralism is thus the ideology of groups, a set of phantasmic representations that triangulate three fundamental pseudoconcepts: democracy, the media, and the market. This ideology cannot, however, be adequately modeled and analyzed unless we realize that its conditions of possibility are real social changes (in which “groups” now play a more significant role), and without somehow marking and specifying the historical determinacy of the ideological concept of the group itself (quite different from that of Freud’s or LeBon’s period, for example, let alone the older revolutionary “mob”). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 696

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines pluralism operationally as the ideology of groups with its three structural pseudoconcepts — directly usable when the reader tries to explain what Jameson means by pluralism as cultural dominant.