Ideology
In an ideological analysis, the critic looks beyond the surface structure of an artifact to discover the beliefs, values, and assumptions it suggests. According to Foss, an ideology is a pattern of beliefs that determine a groups interpretation of symbols in the world. These beliefs are a reflection of the groups social, economic, political & cultural interests. You can also look at ideology as a mental framework. It consist of concepts, categories, perspective, imagery of thought, and representation. Ideology is used to make sense of and define a person's view of the world in some aspects. The primary concern of ideology is to evaluate beliefs that have possible alternative judgments.
Terms.
Structuralism: Used to understand systems. Things like words, font, camera angles, and colors can be used to mean other things. (ex. American Flag).
Marxims: Analyze cultural products and the social and economic practices/institutions that create them.
Post-Structuralism: Also called destructionism; Functions as a way to deconstructs the self evidence of central concepts. In terms of method, post-structuralism primary function is to question texts, take them apart, and exposes biases and meanings.
Post-Mondernism: a theory of cultural, intellectual, and societal discontinuity; culture has moved into new phase.
Hegemonic ideology: invites us to understand the world in certain ways but not others; A dominant ideology that controls what groups see as natural or obvious by establishing the norm; provides a sense that things are the way they have to be.
Ideographs: political commitments
Marxims: Analyze cultural products and the social and economic practices/institutions that create them.
Post-Structuralism: Also called destructionism; Functions as a way to deconstructs the self evidence of central concepts. In terms of method, post-structuralism primary function is to question texts, take them apart, and exposes biases and meanings.
Post-Mondernism: a theory of cultural, intellectual, and societal discontinuity; culture has moved into new phase.
Hegemonic ideology: invites us to understand the world in certain ways but not others; A dominant ideology that controls what groups see as natural or obvious by establishing the norm; provides a sense that things are the way they have to be.
Ideographs: political commitments
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