Without a concept of ideology, culture’s role in reproducing production cannot be grasped.

Evidence

The third strength which structuralism exhibits lies in its decentering of “experience” and its seminal work in elaborating the neglected category of “ideology.” It is difficult to conceive of a Cultural Studies thought within a Marxist paradigm which is innocent of the category of “ideology.” Of course, culturalism constantly makes reference to this concept: but it does not in fact lie at the center of its conceptual universe. The authenticating power and reference of “experience” imposes a barrier between culturalism and a proper conception of “ideology.” Yet, without it, the effectivity of “culture” for the reproduction of a particular mode of production cannot be grasped. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 201

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Links to Hall’s and Laclau’s later work on ideology as a terrain of struggle.

Related

• Treating experience as the ground of truth blocks a usable theory of ideology. (similarity 0.90)
• Structuralism is organized around ideology while culturalism is not. (similarity 0.86)
• Ideology must be conceived as a terrain of struggle, not just functional cement (similarity 0.85)
• Culture and ideology are strongly coupled yet not mutually exclusive concepts (similarity 0.85)
• Cultural Studies’ core problem is non-reductive determinacy between the cultural and the economic. (similarity 0.85)
• Ideology study requires explaining how non-ideas determine ideas without slipping into idealism. (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural Studies engaged Marxism through its omissions, not its established doctrines. (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural Studies and Marxism never had a perfect theoretical fit (similarity 0.82)
• The culturalist paradigm rejects the base-superstructure model of material and ideal forces. (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation functions to reproduce capitalist production relations (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology’s imaginary relation serves expanded reproduction of capitalism, not just class dominance. (similarity 0.81)
• Poststructuralist concepts drop the ideological dimension that social analysis needs. (similarity 0.81)
• Culturally explosive ideology does not automatically become a social or political force. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology is made from pre-existing ideological cultural resources, not freely invented. (similarity 0.81)
• Ongoing theorizing, not finished Theory, is what Cultural Studies requires (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction #corroborates (0.55) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 206