MSCR 4623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Louis Althusser, Antonio Gramsci, Economic Determinism

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Media and Screen Studies
• Course: MSCR 4623
• Professor: Craig M.Robertson

Document Summary

Social order is maintained through ideas, which means people have to accept/take on these ideas. Althusser is interested in looking at: how ideology works on an every day basis (unlike. Marx and gramsci > interested in social change) Althusser is not interested in social change, rather how people navigate and live in a world that is ideological. Comes up with concepts to understand how we interact and come across ideas: Wants to think about the way ideology appears in our every day lives (including architecture/fashion/art/etc) and how they emphasise and naturalist power relations (i. e: classroom - power relation between teacher and student is assumed > reproduces ideology) Ideology is a dynamic process constantly reproduced and reconstituted (not static) Ideology is not changing but it is dynamic because it is constantly being reproduced/copied (i. e: when you enter a classroom and take on the role of the student or teacher)