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ASN Paper on Culture, Power and Ideology

ASN Paper on Culture, Power and Ideology / U of Pa / March 2003 with DNN Commentary/Questions

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INTRO Introduction Breaking apart the unity of the culture-power-ideology schema proposed by Karl Marx in Capital, Volume One, Louis Alt...
MARX Marx Marx's presents a theory of social structure as a progression toward a utopian state in which the competing interests...
ECONOMICS Economic Primacy From this belief in the primacy of economic relationships, Marx centers his conception of a capitalist society around...
BOURGE Bourgeoisie / Proletariat The economic base of society and all social structures rests on the fundamental economic relation between the bourgeo...
CULTURE Culture and Interaction As a construct, culture emerges through the interactions that define and that are necessary in a capitalist system. M...
IDEOLOGY Ideology Ideology is a tool of domination and carries a negative connotation in a Marxian conception based on the association ...
UTOPIA Social Utopia Ideas are necessary in a Marxian social utopia, as material interests form human consciousness in the realm of ideas,...
CLASSINT Class Interests Ideology simultaneously masks the class interests it supports, presenting itself as an ideal form, thereby demanding ...
POWER Power Defines Culture According to Marx, the ideology of the class with the power defines the culture. In a capitalist society, the bourgeo...
PRODUCTS Products of Class Struggle Culture, power and ideology emerge as products of class struggle. Class divisions are economically determined and fix...
SOCIALCHG Marx and Social Change Marx theorizes that social change will result naturally from rational, class-based action once the illusions of the d...
REPRESS Repressed Classes While the obstacles facing the repressed, subordinated classes are great,as ideology and culture reinforce the power ...
NOROLE Making room for the Individual There is no role for individual to enact gradual, systemic change in Marx's construct: a single, cohesive culture-pow...
ALTHUSSER Althusser (No text so far)
DETERMINISM Challenging Economic Determinism To understand the forces of reproduction, Althusser questions the economic determinism in the Marxian Base-Superstruc...
IDEOLOGY Ideology From a Marxian definition of ideology as the "system of the ideas and representations which dominate the mind of man ...
RSAISA RSA / ISA While there is only one RSA, a plurality of ISAs exist and function by numerous ideologies (145). Althusser argues th...
GOAL Goal Ideologies goal is to ensure the reproduction of the ideological superstructure. To achieve this, an ideology must be...
FOUCAULT Foucault (No text so far)
SPACES Spaces of Culture Althusser broadens Marx's theory to open the spaces of culture as sites, rather than simply products, of class strugg...
STRUGGLE Struggle for Control The struggle for control remains central, but the pervasiveness of power is identified as the force driving societal ...
EXERCISE Exercise of Power To understand the exercise of power, Foucault focuses on resistance. "As power is not exterior to social relations, r...
AGENCY Individual Agency Foucault has introduced the possibility for individual agency in enacting social change based on his model of transve...
CONCLUSION Conclusion Culture remains difficult to pinpoint
DYNAMIC Dynamic Transformation The dynamic transformation of culture as a force and a framework relies on the exercises of power within and upon the...



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