Browsing by Subject "Ideology"

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    Common Themes of Emancipation: Nietzsche and Socrates
    (1991) Rodriguez, Bridget; Wright, Kathleen, 1944-; Esheté, Andreas
    My project in this essay will be to compare the philosophical work of Nietzsche and Socrates. For both Nietzsche and Socrates there are processes of ideological emancipation.
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    Gender-Identity and Gender-Ideology Discrepancies in Same-Sex Relationships
    (2016) Montaque, Kayla; Le, Benjamin; Wang, Shu-wen
    Gender-identity and gender-ideology discrepancies were examined in individuals currently in same-sex romantic relationships. Gender-identity discrepancy is a discrepancy between your biological sex and gendered behavior. Gender-ideology discrepancy is a discrepancy between your gendered behavior and your ideology towards gender roles. In this study, gender-ideology discrepancy predicted avoidant attachment, anxious attachment, low relationship satisfaction, and high commitment. Gender-identity discrepancy predicted avoidant attachment, anxious attachment, positive well-being, and high relationship satisfaction. In addition, avoidant attachment negatively predicted relationship satisfaction. Lastly, relationship satisfaction predicted positive well-being. Together, these findings suggest that gender-identity and gender-ideology discrepancies interact differently with various dynamics of romantic relationships, avoidantly attached partners are less satisfied with their relationship, and homosexuals who are more satisfied with their relationships have greater well-being.
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    "Sustainability" and the Consumer: The Ideological and Discursive Limits of Environmentalism
    (2020) Kesterson, Hayden; McKeever, Matthew
    This paper explores what is meant when one says a food is sustainably produced. Conversations with the main food buyer in the households of college professors on the Main Line of Philadelphia are analyzed through the frameworks of ideology and discourse as laid out by Althusser and Foucault, respectively. Such an analysis of the understandings made by a well educated and (relatively) financially well off group of their grocery buying decisions reveals a complicated conception of what it means to be sustainable. Sustainability, though acknowledged as a structural concern, is melded through the ideological apparatuses at play in the grocery store and wider discourses of consumption, to ultimately be an attribute of individual habits. "Sustainability," as a concept, is thus curtailed to an amorphous and apolitical meaning. Ideological subject formation and the discourse that comes concomitantly with it ensure that "sustainability" can only ever refer to the actions of an individual or group of individuals within current political and economic systems, rather than a potential bridge to the type of social change necessary to combat climate change according to climate experts.