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The 41 pages that link to Ideology, each with the reason it gives.

• Karl MarxRelated: Marx’s critique asks how dominant ideas can sustain existing class relations.

• MarxismRelated: Marxist analysis asks how dominant ideas can make existing class relations seem natural.

• Feminist literary criticismRelated: The lens asks how literary conventions make gender hierarchies appear natural or inevitable.

• Social reproductionRelated: Ideologies can make inherited inequalities seem fair, inevitable, or deserved.

• Cultural studiesRelated: The concept links cultural meanings to the reproduction of power.

• Feminist film theoryRelated: Feminist critics examine how film conventions make unequal gender relations appear ordinary or inevitable.

• RepresentationRelated: Representations can make historically specific values appear natural or inevitable.

• Commodity fetishismRelated: Fetishism is a specific social appearance, not simply a mistaken belief or doctrine.

• Marxist literary criticismRelated: Critics ask how a text naturalizes or unsettles dominant ideas.

• ReligionCompared with: Ideologies can supply shared meaning and moral direction without supernatural commitments.

• Conflict theoryRelated: Dominant ideas can make unequal arrangements appear natural or legitimate.

• Critical theoryRelated: Critical theorists examine how ideas can make unequal social arrangements appear natural or legitimate.

• DiscourseRelated: Discourse can carry ideological assumptions without stating them explicitly.

• Critical pedagogyRelated: Critical pedagogy investigates how schooling can reproduce dominant assumptions as common sense.

• ReificationRelated: Reified appearances can function ideologically by making contingent social arrangements seem self-evident.

• Cultural hegemonyRelated: Ideology supplies meanings through which dominant arrangements can be justified or challenged.

• Louis AlthusserRelated: Althusser treated ideology as a material practice that helps reproduce existing social relations.

• HegemonyRelated: Shared ideas can make unequal arrangements seem reasonable, inevitable, or beneficial.

• Media representationRelated: Portrayals can make particular assumptions about social order seem natural.

• RadicalizationNarrower topic: Ideologies provide the frameworks that radicalizing narratives can draw upon.

• Literary theoryNarrower topic: Literary theory uses this broader concept to examine how texts naturalize or challenge social beliefs.

• Base and superstructureRelated: Marxist analysis asks how ideas can legitimize the social order rooted in production.

• SectarianismNarrower topic: Sectarian divisions can form around ideological affiliation as well as religious identity.

• BourgeoisieRelated: Marxist accounts examine how dominant ideas can support bourgeois social relations.

• Daniel BellRelated: Bell examined how ideological commitments shaped modern politics and whether they were losing force.

• WorldviewRelated: Ideologies turn broad assumptions about society into programs for collective change.

• Slavoj ŽižekNarrower topic: Žižek treats ideology as embedded in everyday practices, not merely mistaken beliefs.

• Allegory of the CaveRelated: The prisoners’ shared acceptance of shadows offers a model for examining socially maintained beliefs.

• Marxist sociologyRelated: Marxist sociology examines how ideas can legitimize existing class relations.

• Structural MarxismRelated: Its material and institutional operation is central to Althusser’s account of reproduction.

• Raymond AronRelated: Aron examined how doctrines could turn political hopes into justifications for coercion.

• Western MarxismRelated: The tradition examines how ideas help reproduce or challenge capitalist relations.

• Karl MannheimRelated: Mannheim distinguished partial distortions from comprehensive worldviews shaped by group position.

• Terry EagletonRelated: Eagleton treats literary works as shaped by, and capable of exposing, ideological assumptions.

• Architectural theoryRelated: Theories of architecture often reveal the values embedded in design decisions.

• The Origins of TotalitarianismRelated: Arendt describes totalitarian ideology as imposing a supposedly inevitable logic on events.

• Dimitar DimovRelated: Political commitments affect how Dimov’s characters understand duty, loyalty, and power.

• Freudo-MarxismNarrower topic: It supplies the Marxist account of beliefs that make unequal social arrangements appear natural.

• Marxist philosophyRelated: Marxist theories examine how dominant ideas can sustain existing social relations.

• Philosophy (guiding principles)Compared with: An ideology is usually more systematic and socially prescriptive than a general guiding philosophy.

• Post-left anarchyRelated: Post-left critiques often treat ideological adherence as a constraint on direct experience and action.