Althusserian Ideology - 1 views
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With the rise of industrialization, urbanization, mass culture and public institutions, intellectuals began to consider the influence of these phenomena in shaping the individual personality, and the recognition that identity is socially dependent gained acceptance.
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Many of these thinkers study the concept of subjectivity or the belief that identity is socially constructed and that it is formed in relation to dominant beliefs, values and norms known as ideology.
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Althusser was the first cultural theorist concerned with ideology to put the subject at the center of his research (Chandler 181).
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