In this chapter I argue that in preindustrial societies where resources were difficult to monopolize and physical coercion was not an option, ideology provided a significant source of social power. This avenue toward social power was especially important in the prehispanic Andes, and the establishment and negotiation of that power was often through ritual feasting involving politically charged ...

This study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. Results indicate that political ideology influences biased processing of ambiguous political messages and source in late-night comedy. Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology sign...

The article analyzes precedent anthroponyms of the Soviet origin in multimodal texts American and British advertising. study aims at analyzing English from linguoaxiological linguopragmatic points view standpoint textual organization. following research methods have been used: description synthesis, linguistic structural-semantic, contextual cognitive-discourse analysis. paper examines names (f...

This article briefly explains the attitude and actions of Soviet state towards holy places in example Khoja Ahmet Yasawi Tomb. Adhering to ideology atheism, Soviets encountered biggest obstacles building a new society. It was religion customs local people Central Asia. For long time Turkestan had tradition considering visiting tombs saints as holy. One largest region The Yesewi Tomb is sacred p...

The media plays a vital role in spreading and communicating environmental issues to the public. It is widely accepted that China has become increasingly open toward news. However, Chinese long been understood be mouthpiece of government. Social systems have greatest power influence news content hierarchical model. Hence, this article assessed what extent on pollution produced under social syste...

Scholars have proffered a number of theoretical explanations for the phenomenon that corporate ownership is diffuse in some countries and highly concentrated in others. One explanation, the social democracy theory, holds that leftist ideology weakens a variety of corporate governance mechanisms and thus prevents the separation of ownership from control in social democracies, where leftist ideol...

While aspects of Halliday’s theory have been adopted for the study of ideology in discourse in particular via Critical Discourse Analysis these applications of his ideas have not attempted to bring the full weight of Halliday’s model to the problem of understanding the phenomenon and practical manifestation of ideology. A consideration of Halliday’s model reveals, first of all, that Halliday, l...

Ideology is the source of all organized activity—there is no possibility of organized social activity without an internalized morality or ideology to legitimate it. Indeed, ideology is the transcendent phenomenon of everyday life, not as the causal or motivating factor in social activity, but as the link between organized mental activity and the organized social world. Ideology serves to legiti...

This article focuses on individual effects of the transformation from communist to capitalist structures in the system of occupational health and safety (OHS). Despite basic similarities among the communist nations the systems of OHS differed immensely. The political changes during transformation additionally contributed to varying opportunities for the development of OHS systems. Changes affec...