Week 7

Question 1

ideology is ‘a set of practices and institutions that sustain an individual’s imaginary relationship to his or her material conditions of existence

Answer 1

Louis Althusser Ideology 1970

Question 2

How society should behave

Answer 2

Louis Althusser Ideology 1970

Question 3

The way that we conform as a society

Answer 3

Louis Althusser Ideology 1970

Question 4

Internalized image of one’s place within all of the social dynamics related to power and hierarchy

Answer 4

Ideology

Question 5

The lens through which individuals see and understand how they fit in the social world around them

Answer 5

Ideology

Question 6

agreement with the established. Prevailing dominant way of doing things

Answer 6

Internalized image

Question 7

Gradually constructed over times through the family, media, church, school legals system, medical systems, friendships/peers, and other institutions

Answer 7

Internalized image

Question 8

Resist, challenge or subvert the dominant ideology

Answer 8

Alternative Ideologies

Question 9

Belief systems of individuals who feel dominant ideology does not fit their needs

Answer 9

Alternative Ideologies

Question 10

Operates to normalize or naturalize social practices that preserve the status quo

Answer 10

Repressive force

Question 11

Must continuously discredit, misrepresent, censor and fend off alternative ideologies that threatened its dominance

Answer 11

Repressive force

Question 12

Process for arriving at a new state of awareness

Answer 12

Consciousness-raising

Question 13

Bring a different social structure into being

Answer 13

Consciousness-raising

Question 14

Seeing conflicts and injustice

Answer 14

Consciousness-raising

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Hegemony

Question 16

social distribution of power and hierarchy. Strives to make the uneven distribution of power seem natural.

Answer 16

Hegemonic Order

Question 17

forms of conduct peculiar to an individual. Minor deviations from normal behaviour.

Answer 17

Idiosyncratic Behaviour

Question 18

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

Answer 18

neurotic/Psychotic Behaviour

Question 19

mock/reject/undermine/exploit the existing social order without changing it. Uses irony, satire,cynicism etc

Answer 19

Resistant behaviour (mocking)

Question 20

break with the social order and challenge the hegemonic order. Help define boundaries of what counts as normal versus deviant behaviour

Answer 20

Rebels