Translation is a challenging task, especially when it deals with ideological turns. Translations may be ma- nipulated and rewritten by rival parties to serve their own interests and convey their own ideologies and also translators play a significant role in negotiating meaning within social and political processes. In the field of ideological turns, different matters are being discussed f...

Using a representative sample of Belgian adolescents (N=1,530) and both their parents, we investigated the parent-child similarity in prejudice toward different outgroups and ideological attitudes (right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation). Contrary to previous studies, we distinguished between common and specific components of prejudice to test whether the parent-child simi...

The flavor du jour in discussions of Islamic terrorism features a de-emphasis on the ideological component, drawing instead upon epidemiological and criminological concepts; approaching Mexican drug gangs and Islamic extremists as being more similar than they are different. This aids a network scrutiny and suggests buy-out rather than ideological deradicalization. Such new abandonments of the i...

Marcia’s (1966) identity status approach was employed in the examination of an existential domain of identity—conceptualized as a component of ideological identity, and operationalized as a multidimensional set of death orientations. Paralleling the identity status constructs of exploration and commitment, the underlying constructs of this domain were proposed to be death contemplation and acce...