The Dominant Ideology Thesis

Foreword: This book makes an important contribution to the..debate about the functions of ideology in social life. The author sets out to contest the (usu Marxist) view...that capitalist society..maintains and reproduces itself through the effects of a 'dominant ideology' which successfully incorporates the working class into the existing social system, thereby perpetuating its subordination. CONTENTS: Theories of Dominant Ideology * Theories of Common Culture * Feudalism * Early Capitalism * Late Capitalism * The End of Ideology? * The Concept of Ideology