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.
Group Relations
Group Relations
Position
Throughout the earlier chapters of this study, ideologies not only appear to be tied to more or less well-defined groups or movements, but also to various aspects of relationships between groups. One of the fundamental categories of the ideological schema therefore also focused on the position of the group in relation to other groups. Racist ideologies, as we have seen, are fundamentally based on distinctions being established by ingroups that simply ‘prefer their own’ or that feel themselves superior to outgroups, and manifest themselves in all social forms of problematization, marginalization or exclusion of the others.
Journalists, as a group, develop professional ideologies primarily in relation to other elites and other power groups. Thus, they may emphasize the freedom of the press, oppose ...
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