The main focus of their work was to try to understand how ideology works, how an ideological hegemony is established and how people come to believe the things they do about themselves and the world.
Results of our regression decomposition indicated that marriage and family expectations and gender ideology worked in opposite directions for men and women.
The Marine Corps ideology worked: Break them down.
So, it makes you aware of how ideology works and how mythology works.
Of course that's not how ideology works, and per cognitive scientist Pascal Boyer, rationality is like Swiss Cheese for all of us.
It would seem, according to Douthat, that the latter ideology works better when it comes to attracting followers and raising money because it sets clear expectations and boundaries, and that image appeals to newcomers like a man in a tailored suit attracts on a first date: Because it's confident and it's clear.
It does not use empirical data to test the size of the effect of social embeddedness but to address a theoretical question raised by the sociology of knowledge, "How does ideology work?" (DiMaggio and Powell 1991).
They have a platform, an ideology, work as barbers and electricians, and are serious about their politics and the importance of being armed.
Mrs. Clinton, in contrast, has argued for the vetting of immigrants — about their history or sympathy for radical ideology — but working to counter extremists messages or behavior.
Still, in his last year in office, Romney used a very Bain-like approach — rigorously studying the problem, coming up with a solution based on empiricism, not ideology, and working hard at implementation — to propose a universal-health-care plan for the state and see it passed.
