This week I really enjoyed our discussion on the ruling class and how “signs become the arena of the class struggle.” (Volonsinov) we talked about how signs are where class struggles play out. In determining what signs mean it is a mean of exemplifying the class struggle that all societies have. Class is the struggle within cultures is more so than race. How much material you have determines the conflict within a culture. But here’s the question… why is it that we think this? And why is it that it has to be like this in our society?
In class Rog discussed how we don’t have repressive apparatus, but our repression operates ideologically, and we are unconsciously being repressed. So who makes the decisions? A group of peers? These ideologies that are work on us constantly cause us to do the things we do. For example, Education.. we are taught history with an emphasis on American being the hero. This reminds me of one of my blogs I did a while ago about “they” how we say sometimes to people… o you shouldn’t do that because “they” say its bad for you… but who is they? In ideology we are unconscious followers. We are individuals vs subject (one) we cant escape ideology, no matter how hard we try. It is an image projected by the ideology of a particular.
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You bring up some good questions but it would be even better if you took the time to elaborate and answer some of these questions you pose to the reader. Also, grammar isn't marked in this but it would be worth reading through before you submit it because there are parts that are unclear. You bring up some good points about how education, particularly history, shapes part of our ideology. In your next blog take one or two of these questions and come up with solutions. :)
And careful on word-count! Your 70 words off 300 :)
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