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.
Values
Values
Introduction
Values play a central role in the construction of ideologies. Together with ideologies they are the benchmark of social and cultural evaluation. Like knowledge and attitudes, they are located in the memory domain of social beliefs. That is, we do not take values as social or sociological abstractions, but as shared mental objects of social cognition.
Unlike group beliefs, values have a broader, cultural base. Together with culturally shared knowledge, they are part of the cultural common ground. Whatever the ideological differences between groups, few people in the same culture have very different value systems – truth, equality, happiness, and so on, seem to be generally, if not universally shared as criteria of action and at least as ideal goals to strive for. Of course, ...
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