The paper attempts to understand ways in which gender and racially defined communal ideologies worked simultaneously to produce Muslim women in colonial Bengal as invisible within nationalist historiography. It argues that the negative representations of Muslim women underpinned the construction of other identity categories in colonial Bengal, and highlights the participation of Hindu/Brahmo wo...

Abstract This study tried to examine the relationship between language strategies/sources and ideologies, and how ideologies are constructed and expressed through language strategies in different English newspapers with different political contexts. The focus of the study was on the style of representation of Syrian civil war in Tehran-Times and Asharq Al-Awsat newspapers. The data from these n...

This article devises a social hermeneutical framework to make sense of the problem conflict polarized ideologies. First, it discusses irrationality in belief and behavior, arguing for contextual non-reductionist account rationality. Second, shows how approach can provide useful toolbox epistemology. Third, drawing from Paul Ricœur’s notions interpretations constitutive pathological ideologies, ...

Two studies investigated relationships among individual differences in implicit and explicit prejudice, right-wing ideology, and rigidity in thinking. The first study examined these relationships focusing on White Americans' prejudice toward Black Americans. The second study provided the first test of implicit ethnocentrism and its relationship to explicit ethnocentrism by studying the relation...

In France, as in the United States, the problems of controlling health care costs are seemingly intractable. The incongruity of private provision with public financing is traced to adherence to competing and contradictory policies-solidarity and liberal-pluralism. This "marriage" of ideologies has been costly, and efforts to stem rising prices have resulted in political stalemate.

Hibbing et al. provide a comprehensive overview of how being susceptible to heightened sensitivity to threat may lead to conservative ideologies. Yet, an emerging literature in social and cultural neuroscience shows the importance of genetic and cultural factors on negativity biases. Promising avenues for future investigation may include examining the bidirectional relationship of conservatism ...