Open AccessStudy on Althusser’s Theory of Ideology
Author(s) -
Lei Zhang
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
world journal of educational research (los angeles. online)/world journal of educational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2375-9771
pISSN - 2333-5998
DOI - 10.22158/wjer.v4n2p274
Subject(s) - ideology , connotation , state (computer science) , viewpoints , value (mathematics) , sociology , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics , law , political science , physics , politics , linguistics , statistics , algorithm , acoustics
Althusser is a representative of the structuralism of western Marxism, and his theory of ideology holds a prominent position in philosophical theories. Firstly this paper starts from the overall theory of Althusser to probe into the source and course of his theory of ideology; secondly this paper introduces the main content of Althusser’s theory of ideology, which includes the characteristics of ideology, ideology and science, ideological state apparatus and ideological interpellation subject; thirdly employing basic viewpoints of Marxism and referring to foreign and domestic research results, this paper conducts analysis and evaluation on Althusser’s theory of ideology to dig into its in-depth theoretical connotation and value and to apply the beneficial elements into Chinese ideological construction.