The two ideologies function as a firm ideological basis and serve as guidance for the activities of the Party and state.
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.
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 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".
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.
Haakon's dramatic childhood was often parallelled with that of former king Olaf Tryggvasson (who introduced Christianity to Norway), as well as with the gospels and Child Jesus, which served as an important ideological function for his kingship.
I don't see much difference in the ideological function of this and Katy Perry launching fireworks out of her breasts they're just two vague myths of empowerment that offer little more than passive visual titillation, framed differently for two very different world views.
"What is functioning is a very ideological, discriminative racism".
It's not that they are opposing anything on ideological grounds; it's that they're trying to keep government from functioning so that they can say, "See!
