The meaning stereotyping produces is best understood as ideological

Evidence

Stereotypes themselves therefore would appear to fail to provide any significant additional understanding into better defining or conceptualising that ‘certain identifiable phenomenon’ than existing models. As such, the value of undertaking a more extensive investigation into stereotypes must be questioned. nonetheless, the actual process of stereotypification would appear to reinforce some of the preliminary observations made about the eUMC report’s Islamophobia: that in recognising the stereotypes – products – one must necessarily and simultaneously acknowledge that underpinning them are a series of meanings that feed into and reinforce the ideas, perceptions and established meanings and knowledge that already exists and is made known in society. This ‘meaning’ is founded upon and rooted within relations of domination and subordination, largely dictated by an asymmetric ‘ingroup-outgroup’ dichotomy, where through these same asymmetric relationships, that meaning becomes attributed and fixed, in terms of difference and Otherness to the outgroup in terms of them being different and Other to the normative values and mores of the ingroup. It might be therefore that this ‘meaning’ be most appropriately referred to in terms of it being ‘ideological’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 734

Categorization

• DEFINE: Allen coins the framing that the meaning fixed on the outgroup is ‘ideological’, grounding his definitional move in domination rather than mere attitude.
• XREF: The ‘ideological meaning’ move connects to Halliday’s critique and to the racialization turn, distinguishing Allen from Bleich’s neutral attitude-based concept formation. — connects to: Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628; Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 823; Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (+1 more)

Related

• Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. (similarity 0.86)
• Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification (similarity 0.85)
• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia centers on recognition of Muslim-ness and its ideological meaning (similarity 0.79)
• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.79)
• Typology-based definitions fail because they cannot capture Islamophobia’s fluid meaning-sustaining processes. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628
• Ideology is best conceived as systems of signifiers shaping social action. #expands (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 823
• Connotation is where visual signs acquire ideology by intersecting with cultural meaning structures. #expands (0.78)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence #expands (0.72)