ISBN:
9781138788121
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (279 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Dominant Ideologies (RLE Social Theory)
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this volume leading international scholars elaborate upon the central issues of the analysis of ideology: the nature of dominant ideologies. The ways in which ideologies are transmitted; their effects on dominant and subordinate social classes in different societies; the contrast between individualistic and collectivist belief systems; and the diversity of cultural forms that coexist within the capitalist form of economic organization.This book is distinctive in its empirical and comparative approach to the study of the economic and cultural basis of social order, and in the wide range of s
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Britain: The Dominant Ideology Thesis after a decade; 2 Poland: ideology, legitimacy and political domination; 3 Coercion as ideology: the German case; 4 Re-reading Japan: capitalism, possession and the necessity of hegemony; 5 Argentina: dominant ideology or dominant cleavage?; 6 Australia: the debate about hegemonic culture; 7 Japan and the USA: the interpenetration of national identities and the debate about orientalism
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Popular culture and ideological effects9 Conclusion: peroration on ideology; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
