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The function of ideology is to stabilize and perpetuate dominance through masking or illusion. 0.900

👤 Sally Haslanger 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Sociology , Ideology

Simplified: Ideology stabilizes and perpetuates dominance through masking or illusion

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Sociological examples of ideologies include racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and ethnocentrism. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Sociology , Ideology

Simplified: Racism sexism heterosexism ableism and ethnocentrism are sociological examples of ideologies

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As societies changed throughout history, so did the ideologies that justified systems of inequality. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Sociology , Ideology , History

Simplified: Ideologies that justified inequality changed as societies changed throughout history

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The dominant ideology in a society is passed along through the society's major social institutions, such as the media, the family, education, and religion. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Sociology , Ideology

Simplified: Dominant ideology is passed along through social institutions like media family education and religion

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Ideologies use a society's symbol system to organize social relations in a hierarchy, with some social identities being superior to other social identities, which are considered inferior. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Sociology , Ideology

Simplified: Ideologies use a society's symbol system to organize social relations in a hierarchy

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Dominant groups use these sets of cultural beliefs and practices to justify the systems of inequality that maintain their group's social power over non-dominant groups. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Sociology , Ideology

Simplified: Dominant groups use cultural beliefs to justify inequality maintaining their social power

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Sociologists define ideology as "cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements, including patterns of inequality". 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Sociology , Ideology

Simplified: Sociologists define ideology as cultural beliefs that justify social arrangements including inequality

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According to system justification theory,[50] ideologies reflect (unconscious) motivational processes, as opposed to the view that political convictions always reflect independent and unbiased thinkin... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Psychology , Ideology

Simplified: System justification theory states ideologies reflect motivational processes not political convictions

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Jost, Fitzimmons and Kay argue that the motivation to protect a preexisting system is due to a desire for cognitive consistency (being able to think in similar ways over time), reducing uncertainty an... 0.900

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Simplified: Jost Fitzimmons and Kay argue motivation to protect a preexisting system is due to a desire for cognitive consistency reducing uncertainty reducing ef...

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System justification theory posits that people tend to defend existing society, even at times against their interest, which in turn causes people to create ideological explanations to justify the stat... 0.900

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Simplified: System justification theory posits people defend existing society and create ideological explanations to justify the status quo

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Evidence shows that priming individuals with an awareness of mortality does not cause individuals to respond in ways underpinned by any particular ideology, but rather the ideology that they are curre... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Psychology , Ideology

Simplified: Priming individuals with mortality awareness does not cause response underpinned by any particular ideology but the ideology they are aware of

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Terror management theory posits that ideology is used as a defence mechanism against threats to their worldview which in turn protect and individuals sense of self-esteem and reduce their awareness of... 0.900

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Simplified: Terror management theory posits ideology is used as a defense mechanism against threats to worldview

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Just-world theory posits that people want to believe in a fair world for a sense of control and security and generate ideologies in order to maintain this belief, for example by justifiying inequality... 0.900

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Simplified: Just-world theory posits people want to believe in a fair world and generate ideologies to maintain this belief

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A critique of just world theory as a sole explanation of ideology is that it does not explain the differences between ideologies. 0.900

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Simplified: Just world theory does not explain the differences between ideologies

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The authors conclude that such motives may lead disproportionately to the adoption of system-justifying worldviews. 0.800

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Simplified: Motives may lead to the adoption of system-justifying worldviews

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Psychologists generally agree that personality traits, individual difference variables, needs, and ideological beliefs seem to have something in common. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Psychology , Ideology

Simplified: Psychologists agree personality traits individual difference variables needs and ideological beliefs have something in common

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Jost, Ledgerwood, and Hardin (2008) propose that ideologies may function as prepackaged units of interpretation that spread because of basic human motives to understand the world, avoid existential th... 0.900

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Simplified: Jost Ledgerwood and Hardin propose ideologies function as prepackaged units of interpretation that spread because of human motives

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Many theories have tried to explain the existence of ideology in human societies. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Ideology , Sociology

Simplified: Many theories explain the existence of ideology in human societies

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A large amount of research in psychology is concerned with the causes, consequences and content of ideology,[46][47][48] with humans being dubbed the "ideological animal" by Althusser. 1.000

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Simplified: Psychology research is concerned with causes consequences and content of ideology humans are the ideological animal by Althusser

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In The Anatomy of Revolution, Crane Brinton said that new ideology spreads when there is discontent with an old regime. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Encyclopedia Entry 🏷️ Political Science , Ideology , Historical

Simplified: Crane Brinton said new ideology spreads when there is discontent with old regime

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