Ideology

certain perquisites the rest of the women do not meet. Miss America pageant is promoting a dominant ideology where white woman have been the only ones to ever win this award. It shows the privilege, social power, rights, and political power white women have over minorities giving them the advantage to win every time. The show also promotes a hegemonic view where women are pushed to the hegemonic ideology in which women are viewed only as valuable as their appearance,…

Proposed Solution to the Polarization of American Politics The political division of the people of the United States has never felt stronger than it does now. After the result of the 2016 election, it feels as though half of our country feels completely betrayed while the other half is overcome with joy. This is not how the country should be. The polarization between the two main parties, Republican and Democrat, has reached a point that is becoming concerning for the near future. According to…

strictly or permanently based on the political ideologies they are sometime names after. It is true that some begin with the idea of representing a specific ideology, but over time the influence of outside forces and the need to stay relevant in the eyes of the voting population and large organizations, among other things can and often does cause changes and these changes lead to an overall shift in the political parties policy and the founding ideology. The liberal party of Canada and the…

from the perspective of a queer feminist woman of color who speaks in her native language, it fights the dominant cultural ideologies, racism, and sexism. Her cultural references span things such as the dominant religious ideology - She takes cultural ideology and spins on her fun, flirty, and brazen humor to critique it. Another example is taking on this big religious ideology - Catholicism and disidentifies with it, with Jesus Christ and crucifixion. She pleads in her performance “Can’t we…

In his essay “The Bipartite System of Laws in Paradise Lost" Eric Dunnum argues that in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, man’s fall can be attributed to a system, set by God, that reflects that which is also used by historical kings and governments of the world. This system is a set of laws that is, as the title suggests, bipartite, which means that it is composed of two separate entities that come together to form a whole, and Dunnum’s argument often relies on the works of Louis Althusser to expand…

families. Rather than dominating, and imposing order, through repression, Ideological State Apparatuses support the rule of the dominant social class predominantly through ideology. Althusser implies that in place of the fear of prosecution or violence, humanity will be forced to submit out of fear of social ridicule. Ideologies have the purpose of disguising the manipulative measures…

Congressional approval ratings have proven to be dependent upon the partisan lens in which the public views their legislative decisions. The public tends to have higher approval ratings when Congress approves legislation that aligns with their political views and lower approval ratings when congress approves legislation that does not. However, in “How Partisan Conflict in Congress Affects Public Opinion: Strategies, Outcomes, and Issue Differences” Flynn and Harbridge examine how approval…

stories that are easy to cover.” A strong media bias can be proven in the United States through, viewer distribution and viewers trust in different media sources, journalist ideologies, and issues focused on by the media. Biased meaning that the media reports on certain stories and events that favor their political ideology. To help me support this idea, I have interviewed two people with seemingly different political views. One is my grandfather and the other being my sister. My grandpa was…

Modern societies have been swayed by political communications due to the political debates which are so heavily sensationalized. It makes people aligned to certain ideologies to act in a particular manner that may deviate from the norm, despite them having a premeditated knowledge and an understanding of the matter in hand, which overall ends up having a negative impact on the public consensus of climate change. The…

Structures and Choices by Lowell Barrington, Barrington discusses multiple political ideologies that bundle politics into economics. A few of those being a progressive ideology, the idea that a strong and active government should redistribute incomes, a Marxist ideology, a support for the government that allows the working middle class to thrive through eliminating various income inconsistencies, or a reactionary ideology, a policy that allows for the economy to run its own course. This is all…