Ideology is a systemic property of cognition central to the transmission and actualization of beliefs. Ideologies take many forms including religious, philosophical, popular and scientific. They play a central role in both personal identity and in the way society holds itself together. Therefore, it is important to understand how to model identities. The article introduces ideologies as a funct...

Drawing upon Castoriadis’ (1987) notion of imaginary significations, this paper aims to advance the analysis of technology acquisition by exploring the ideological role of technology choice and consumption. The illustration of the theoretical background of this paper results in the formulation of two main research interests. First, the ways in which technological imaginaries form ideologies and...

Abstract In this article, I study how symbolic theology can be advantageously utilized in the resistance against oppressing structures and ideologies. Studying two sermons of Paul Tillich speeches Martin Luther King, Jr. symbols used herein as a call to injustice, wish show theologically grounded have been resist injustice for justice. Furthermore, by King reinterpreted various struggles taking...

A semiotic theory of systems derived from language would have the purpose of classifying all the systems of linguistic expression: philosophy, ideology, myth, poetry, art, as much as the dream, lapsus, and free association in a pluridimensional matrix that will interact with many diversified fields. In each one of these discourses it is necessary to consider a plurality of questions, the essenc...

The authors argue, in line with recent research, that operationalizing gender ideology as a unidimensional construct ranging from traditional to egalitarian is problematic and propose an alternative framework that takes the multidimensionality of gender ideologies into account. Using latent class analysis, they operationalize their gender ideology framework based on data from the 2008 European ...

The social context of an agent can have a profound influence upon their decisions and actions, where their attitudes and ideologies frequently change the interpretation given to a specific body of knowledge. However, attitudes and ideologies themselves result from groups of agents as they communicate and respond to information. This paper proposes a geometric model of an agent in context, where...

Learners’ dictionaries aim to give clear indications of meaning, but not all aspects of meaning can be neatly packaged up in definitions – even without the constraints of a restricted defining vocabulary. It is difficult, for example, to deal effectively with connotation and culture-bound meanings; to show evaluations clearly and consistently; or to explain even-handedly the ideological undercu...

In this article we argue that a tendency to treat populism as ubiquitous, mechanistic characteristic of contemporary penality has impeded systematic theoretical discussion how populist ideologies find contingent expression within national penal systems. Drawing upon an agonistic perspective seek show the intersection between and punishment must be understood structured process is shaped by stru...

This study examines gendered characteristics in four female Japanese language learners’ discourse practices in a communicative setting, where they interact with native Japanese speaking friends in a JFL context. Focusing on the relationship between gender ideologies and discourse practices, I explore the extent to which learners are aware of gender ideologies in the Japanese community and how t...