Representative government in the West was born under an ideology that postulated a basic harmony of interests in society. The political decision process was thus expected to be largely consensual. This ideology obfuscated important con‡icts of values and interests, and it became untenable with the rise of class-based and religious parties. Beginning with Kelsen (1923) and culminating with Schum...

To understand how and why people tolerate ongoing social and economic inequality, we conducted two studies investigating the hypothesis that system justification is associated with reduced emotional distress and a lack of support for helping the disadvantaged. In Study 1, we found that the endorsement of a system-justifying ideology was negatively associated with moral outrage, existential guil...

Malaysia is often hailed as a development success story. However, one criticism of this success story is the over-emphasis on the ideology of economic and capitalist growth by the state in its setting, determining and directing of development. This paper looks into some of the most interesting and critical reflections on development. Representing prominent voices in Malaysian literature in Engl...

One of the primary functions of a translator is to mediate not only between languages but also between cultures. As ideology is one of the crucial cultural constraints, it is essential to teach students that selection of translation strategy is always either implicitly or explicitly affected by the translator’s ideology. Thus, the main aim of this chapter is to illustrate the importance of intr...

If we live indeed in the early stages of what has been termed the " information society, " then it is clear that ethical concerns with regards to information are of central importance. This can explain the growing interest in issues of information ethics. The use of the word " ethics " seems to suggest that there is something wrong or bad and that this can be addressed by morally acceptable mea...

the bluest eye by toni morrison depicts a period in which the waves of the great depression in america fell with particular severity on afro-americans. this research concentrates on the notion of resistance to the dominant ideology. new historicists believe that the dominant power will co-opt any resistance. in this particular novel, claudia’s resistances to the dominant ideology of white stand...

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...