How Prevailing Ideology Prevents Social Change

Social Structure and Ideology Critique

A study of the science of man is inseparable from an examination of the options between which men must choose. This means that we can speak here not only of error, but of illusion. We speak of ‘illusion’ when we are dealing with something of greater substance than error, [it is] error which in a sense builds a counterfeit reality of its own . . . [Such illusions] are more than errors in this se...

Ideology and Knowledge-How: A Rylean Perspective1

In work culminating in Know How (2009), Jason Stanley argues, against Gilbert Ryle, that knowledge-how is a species of knowledge-that. In How Propaganda Works (2015), Stanley portrays this work as undermining a “flawed ideology” supporting elitist valuations of intellectual work and workers. However, the link between Stanley’s two philosophical projects is weak. Ryle’s distinction between knowl...

Psychosocial epidemiology, social structure, and ideology.

Social security politics: ideology and reform.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the distribution of dominant values, actors, and ideological advocacy coalitions influencing the Social Security debate across two presidential administrations. METHODS Through content and cluster analyses, we analyzed federal legislative hearing testimonies on Social Security reform spanning 11 years. RESULTS Witnesses consistently expres...

How to Facilitate Social Contagion?

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has proven to be a real challenge. Providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. Introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. Social network analysis can provi...