Sentence examples for ideological function from inspiring English sources

Their ideological function was twofold: to celebrate the landowners' control of the land and to elevate the rustic landscape of the countryside to the rank of a civilized territory.

The Intellectual and His People by Jacques Rancière (Verso, £19.99) The agitator for a "people's theatre" seeks "to moralise the people through the spread of art"; the sociologist claims to be the only one able to see what is, like Poe's purloined letter, in plain view; and the public intellectual performs the "ideological function of representing the social to the political".

This approach performs an ideological function, in that it discursively integrates the current upheaval into a pre-existing approved ideological narrative – the dictatorships of the Middle East are merely the latest in a long line of tyrannies to have been undermined by the relentless march of progress and liberal democracy.

The agitator for a "people's theatre" seeks "to moralise the people through the spread of art"; the sociologist claims to be the only one able to see what is, like Poe's purloined letter, in plain view; and the public intellectual performs the "ideological function of representing the social to the political".

The liberties had for centuries performed a necessary cultural and ideological function in the city's symbolic economy, one that can be only briefly summarized here but that made them peculiarly apt ground for early modern drama to appropriate and turn to its own use and livelihood.

A conception of law as having a moral source, or a source in a system's institutions, can be independent of a realistic appraisal of law's ideological function, or the ideological process in which laws are made.

Considers careers and works of individual artists, formal innovation, the invention of new media, materials, institutional structures, and ideological functions.

The opposite of this freedom would arise when an institution (e.g., the church) restricts the range of theological inquiry with normative claims, forcing the discipline therewith to assume ideological functions.

According to one case study of the killings, the events "provide an opportunity to examine the ideological functioning of the news media within [the Troubles]".

The two ideologies function as a firm ideological basis and serve as guidance for the activities of the Party and state.

Can sensitivity to the "presence" of the image be reconciled with approaches that stress its ideological and political function?