Ideology

In this ground-breaking book, Teun A van Dijk sketches a challenging new multidisciplinary framework for theorizing ideology. In relations between cognition, society and disocurse he defines ideologies as a form of social cognition, and as the basis of social representation of a group.
The definition of ideology continues to occupy scholars across a wide range of disciplines. In this book, Teun A van Dijk sketches a challenging new multidisciplinary framework for theorizing ideology. He defines ideology as the basis of the social representations of a group, its functions in terms of social relations between groups, and its reproduction as enacted by discourse. Contemporary racist discourse is examined to illustrate these ideological relations between cognition, society and discourse.