Week 7 Flashcards
ideology is ‘a set of practices and institutions that sustain an individual’s imaginary relationship to his or her material conditions of existence
Louis Althusser Ideology 1970
How society should behave
Louis Althusser Ideology 1970
The way that we conform as a society
Louis Althusser Ideology 1970
Internalized image of one’s place within all of the social dynamics related to power and hierarchy
Ideology
The lens through which individuals see and understand how they fit in the social world around them
Ideology
agreement with the established. Prevailing dominant way of doing things
Internalized image
Gradually constructed over times through the family, media, church, school legals system, medical systems, friendships/peers, and other institutions
Internalized image
Resist, challenge or subvert the dominant ideology
Alternative Ideologies
Belief systems of individuals who feel dominant ideology does not fit their needs
Alternative Ideologies
Operates to normalize or naturalize social practices that preserve the status quo
Repressive force
Must continuously discredit, misrepresent, censor and fend off alternative ideologies that threatened its dominance
Repressive force
Process for arriving at a new state of awareness
Consciousness-raising
Bring a different social structure into being
Consciousness-raising
Seeing conflicts and injustice
Consciousness-raising
A process by which a given social system wins the voluntary consent of its members to accept- consent to- their place within a hierarchical structure
Hegemony
social distribution of power and hierarchy. Strives to make the uneven distribution of power seem natural.
Hegemonic Order
forms of conduct peculiar to an individual. Minor deviations from normal behaviour.
Idiosyncratic Behaviour
forms of conducts indicate of mental pathology. ‘I can’t fit in’ demonstrate inability to cope with or adapt to the expectations of dominant ideology
neurotic/Psychotic Behaviour
mock/reject/undermine/exploit the existing social order without changing it. Uses irony, satire,cynicism etc
Resistant behaviour (mocking)
break with the social order and challenge the hegemonic order. Help define boundaries of what counts as normal versus deviant behaviour
Rebels
