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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.
Ideology and Society
Ideology and Society
Relating the Cognitive and the Social
Whereas the first part of this book has made a strong plea for the incorporation of a cognitive component in a multidisciplinary theory of ideology, no such plea is necessary in this second part for a social approach to ideology. All traditional approaches agree that ideologies are social, if only by their multiple social conditions and functions.1 Even in my cognitive approach, this social dimension has been emphasized. Ideologies are not merely sets of beliefs, but socially shared beliefs of groups. These beliefs are acquired, used and changed in social situations, and on the basis of the social interests of groups and social relations between groups in complex social structures.
It is the task of this second ...
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