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Ideology
Marxists

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Karl Marx

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Critique of German Ideology

The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it.
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Marxists

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Karl Marx

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Critique of German Ideology

The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance.
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Marxists

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Karl Marx

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Critique of German Ideology

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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Cultural

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Georg Lukacs

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History & Class Consciousness

Ideological factors do not merely ‘mask’ economic interests, they are not merely the banners and slogans: they are the parts, the components of which the real struggle is made. Of course, if historical materialism is deployed to discover the sociological meaning of these struggles, economic interests will doubtless be revealed as the decisive factors in any explanation.
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Critical

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Theodor Adorno

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Negative Dialectics

The world as it is, is becoming the sole ideology, and human beings, its inventory.
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Critical

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Theodor Adorno

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Negative Dialectics

Bane and ideology are the same. What is fatal about the latter is that it dates back to biology.
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Critical

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Max Horkheimer

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Traditional And Critical Theory

It is possible for the consciousness of every social stratum today to be limited and corrupted by ideology, however much, for its circumstances, it may be bent on truth.
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Critical

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Herbert Marcuse

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Eros And Civilisation

The ideology of today lies in that production and consumption reproduce and justify domination. their ideological character does not change the fact that their benefits are real. The repressiveness of the whole lies to a high degree in its efficacy: it enhances the scope of material culture, facilitates the procurement of the necessities of life, makes comfort and luxury cheaper, draws ever-larger areas into the orbit of industry - while at the same time sustaining toil and destruction. The individual pays by sacrificing his time, his consciousness, his dreams; civilization pays by sacrificing its own promises of liberty, justice, and (...)
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Postmodern

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Jean Baudrillard

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Simulacra And Simulation

It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.
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Postmodern

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Michel Foucault

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The Archaeology of Knowledge

“Discursive practice“ can now be defined more precisely. (…) it is a body of anonymous, historical rules, always determined in the time and space that have defined a given period, and for a given social, economic, geographical, or linguistic area, the conditions of operation of the enunciative function.
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Postmodern

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Michel Foucault

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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews And (...)

“Truth“ is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. “Truth“ is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A “regime“ of truth.
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Postmodern

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Michel Foucault

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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews And (...)

There is a battle “for truth“, or at least “around truth“ - it being understood once again that by truth I do not mean “the ensemble of truths which are to be discovered and accepted“, but rather “the ensemble of rules according to which the true and the false are separated and specific effects of power attached to the true“, it being understood also that it's not a matter of a battle “on behalf“ of the truth, but of a battle about the status of truth and the economic and political role it plays. It is necessary to think of (...)
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Postmodern

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Michel Foucault

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The Archaeology of Knowledge

By correcting itself, by rectifying its errors, by clarifying its formulations, discourse does not necessarily undo its relations with ideology. The role of ideology does not diminish as rigour increases and error is dissipated.
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Postmodern

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Jean Baudrillard

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Simulacra And Simulation

Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory, and if one must return to the fable, today it is the territory whose shreds slowly rot across the extent of the map. It is (...)
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Feminism

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Kate Millet

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Sexual Politics

Male supremacy, like other political creeds, does not finally reside in physical strength but in the acceptance of a value system which is not biological. Superior physical strength is not a factor in political relations like those of race and class. Civilization has always been able to substitute other methods (technic, weaponry, knowledge) for those of physical strength, and contemporary civilization has no further need of it. At present, as in the past, physical exertion is very generally a class factor, those at the bottom performing the most strenuous tasks, whether they be strong or not.
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Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

Ideology: The big, shared ideas of a society that are reinforced throughout all of the institutions and thus are very hard to avoid believing. These ideas include the stories, myths, representations, explanations, definitions, and rationalizations that are used to justify inequality in the society. Individualism and Meritocracy are examples of ideology.
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Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

Ideology is a powerful way to support the dominant group’s position. There are several key interrelated ideologies that rationalize the concentration of dominant group members at the top of society and their right to rule.
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Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

Oppression is ideological. Ideology, as the dominant ideas of a society, plays a powerful role in the perpetuation of oppression. Ideology is disseminated throughout all the institutions of society and rationalizes social inequality.
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Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

Oppression involves institutional control, ideological domination, and the imposition of the dominant group’s culture on the minoritized group.
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Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

Power in the context of understanding social justice refers to the ideological, technical, and discursive elements by which those in authority impose their ideas and interests on everyone.
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Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

When we refer to knowledge as socially constructed we mean that knowledge is reflective of the values and interests of those who produce it.
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Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

By socially constructed, we mean that all knowledge understood by humans is framed by the ideologies, language, beliefs, and customs of human societies. Even the field of science is subjective (the study of which is known as the sociology of scientific knowledge).
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Race (CRT)

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Robin DiAngelo

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Is Everyone Really Equal? (...)

Language is a form of knowledge construction; the language we use to name a social group shapes the way we think about that group. To think critically about language is to think critically about power and ideology.
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Queer

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Gayle Rubin

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Thinking Sex

Sexual ideology plays a crucial role in sexual experience. Consequently, definitions and evaluations of sexual conduct are objects of bitter contest. (…) Recurrent battles take place between the primary producers of sexual ideology - the churches, the family, the shrinks, and the media - and the groups whose experience they name, distort, and endanger.
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Queer

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Gayle Rubin

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Thinking Sex

All these hierarchies of sexual value - religious, psychiatric, and popular - function in much the same ways as do ideological systems of racism, ethnocentrism, and religious chauvinism. They rationalize the well-being of the sexually privileged and the adversity of the sexual rabble.
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Queer

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Gayle Rubin

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Thinking Sex

The modern sexual system contains sets of these sexual populations, stratified by the operation of an ideological and social hierarchy. Differences in social value create friction among these groups, who engage in political contests to alter or maintain their place in the ranking.
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Queer

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Gayle Rubin

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Thinking Sex

This kind of sexual morality [traditional] has more in common with ideologies of racism than with true ethics. It grants virtue to the dominant groups, and relegates vice to the underprivileged.
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Queer

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Gayle Rubin

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Thinking Sex

The ideologies of erotic inferiority and sexual danger decrease the power of sex perverts and sex workers in social encounters of all kinds.
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Queer

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H. Keenan & Lil (...)

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Drag Pedagogy: The Playful (...)

The harmful impacts of institutionalized gender normativity reverberate across the living world.
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Queer

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Judith Butler

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Gender Trouble: Feminism And (...)

Moreover, neither grammar nor style are politically neutral. Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not conforming is the loss of intelligibility itself. (…) As Drucilla Cornell, in the tradition of Adorno, reminds me: there is nothing radical about common sense. It would be a mistake to think that received grammar is the best vehicle for expressing radical views, given the constraints that grammar imposes upon thought, indeed, upon the thinkable itself.
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