Summary
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The definition of ideology continues to occupy scholars across a wide range of disciplines. In this book, Teun A van Dijk sketches a challenging new multidisciplinary framework for theorizing ideology. He defines ideology as the basis of the social representations of a group, its functions in terms of social relations between groups, and its reproduction as enacted by discourse. Contemporary racist discourse is examined to illustrate these ideological relations between cognition, society and discourse.
Mental Models
Mental Models
From the Social to the Personal
One fundamental lack of all traditional and contemporary approaches to the theory of ideology is that they do not account for the relation between the social and the personal in the accomplishment of social practices. We have seen that ideologies, like knowledge, attitudes and values are social representations, shared by the members of groups. At the same time, each serious theory of ideology needs to describe and explain how such social representations are constructed and used by individual group members in and by their social practices in general, and their discourse in particular.
We also know from both research and experience that these social practices of individuals are not always ‘in line’ with group ideologies. Apart from the ...
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