The study of ideology long remained absent from American social science despite promising sites

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But the concept of ideology was never rigorously applied to this promising area of work. … Roger Bacon had called for a thoroughgoing investigation and critique of the roots of conventional wisdom—what he called a “criticism of the idols.” And Helvetius, a favorite of Marx’s, made much of the proposition that “our ideas are the necessary consequence of the societies in which we live.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 321

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to the sociology-of-knowledge tradition and Merton’s intellectual project, relevant to the reader’s interest in ideas-politics relations.

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