J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Post-Structuralism, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser
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Ideology. hegemonic legitimacy is created when dominated groups consent to domination by more powerful groups. Gives us tools to understand the world around us beyond a superficial level. A framework of ideas upon which people make decisions, act, and understand the world. often called a worldview . religion, democracy, capitalism, republican/democrat. Ferdinand de saussure : images are a language. languages have fixed meanings. mental process: signifier and signified. we are socialized in a prison-house of language. Ideological state beyond language. ideologies are fixed, too! . Discourse is never fixed. it is constantly changing. The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. Uses discourse to deliver ideology to us. position us/put us in a position. Discourse . in fact, with fixed meaning and cultural positions through consciousness itself is a product of the way a person understands their relationship with isas. ( althusser ) structures: government, family, religion, work, education, politics.
