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AbstractIdeology plays a central role in consumer decisions, actions, and practices. While there have been numerous studies of ideological formations in specific consumption contexts, an integrative theoretical framework on consumption ideology has been missing. The theoretical framework presented in this article integrates systemic, social group, and social reality perspectives from social theory with prior consumer research to conceptualize consumption ideology as ideas and ideals that are related to consumerism and manifested in consumer behavior. Consumption ideology originates from conflicts between consumer desires and the system of consumerism. It is reflected in consumers' lived experiences and expressed in social representations and communicative actions related to status-based consumption, brand affinity and antipathy, performed practices, and political consumption. By adapting to the market, consumers confirm the system, but when they resist, they accelerate conflicts in consumer experiences unless resistance is ideologically co-opted by the market. Three illustrative cases—upcycling, Zoom backgrounds, and the commercialization of TikTok—exemplify how the framework may be used to analyze consumption ideology and generate new research questions. The article concludes with future research programs that move beyond micro-theorizations to illuminate the broader role of ideology in contemporary consumerist society.

Ideology is a core and contested concept in the social sciences, but also long deployed in management research to highlight the political, embedded and/or obscuring nature of ideas. Indeed, many would argue that management itself is inherently ideological in legitimating or privileging managerial interests and concealing other groups and ways of organising. In the first systematic review of how ideology has been conceptualized in management studies, this article explores its diverse and changing meanings in order to develop and sustain the concept. It is based on a heuristic review of 175 articles and 41 books published between 1956 and 2018. Further developing categories used in the social sciences around its role, we found views of ideology as: (1) domination; (2) legitimation; (3) interpretation; (4) integration and; (5) normative logic. In addition, emerging perspectives were identified where ideology was an (6) object of critique; and (7) fantasy structuring social reality. We describe, illustrate and evaluate these, often internally diverse and interrelated, perspectives as well as compare them with sometimes competing notions within the management field, such as discourse, culture and legitimation. We also bring together the different approaches and argue for a pluralist, but not infinitely flexible, approach to the concept. In doing so, we identify research agendas for ideology within management and organisation studies.

The article explores the discursive means of expressing ideologies. It is postu­lated that a person in the conditions of a changing political situation is at the same time able to hide his ideological preferences, but find means to express them. A distinction is made between the use of rational constructs, which is changed under the influence of political conjuncture, and an emotionally colored assessment of facts. It is argued that ideology is more often transmitted through emotionally expressed communication. The concepts of "quasi-science" and "quasi-religion" are introduced, which complete the completeness of the ideo­logical discourse in the communicative space. A formal method is introduced to identify four modern ideologies. It is fixed that the main goal of ideology is to encourage joint social action. The conditions under which the change of ideo­logical constructs takes place are described. The ideas about the ideology of modern Russian politicians are analyzed. It is shown how the ideological support of a special military operation changes during the year. Conclusions are drawn about the dependence of the concept of war on the social stratum of a person in modern Russian society.

"Public opinion in the United States contains a paradox. The American public is symbolically conservative: it cherishes the symbols of conservatism and is more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal. Yet at the same time, it is operationally liberal, wanting government to do and spend more to solve a variety of social problems. This book focuses on understanding this contradiction. It argues that both facets of public opinion are real and lasting, not artifacts of the survey context or isolated to particular points in time. By exploring the ideological attitudes of the American public as a whole, and the seemingly conflicted choices of individual citizens, it explains the foundations of this paradox. The keys to understanding this large-scale contradiction, and to thinking about its consequences, are found in Americans' attitudes with respect to religion and culture and in the frames in which elite actors describe policy issues"--

Politisches Interesse und politische Partizipation sowie Einschätzung
der Wirksamkeit politischer Protestaktionen.

Themen: Zufriedenheit mit der wirtschaftlichen Situation und allgemeine
Lebenszufriedenheit; Einschätzung der sozialen Ungerechtigkeit in der
BRD und Bezeichnung der bevorteilten bzw. benachteiligten
Bevölkerungsgruppen; Präferenz politischer Ziele; Postmaterialismus;
Bewertung sozialer Probleme sowie Zuordnung der Lösungsverantwortung auf
den Staat; Bewertung staatlicher Aktivitäten zur Problemlösung; eigene
Teilnahmebereitschaft an politischen Protesten; Rolle der
Gewaltanwendungen beim gesellschaftlichen Wandel und vermutete Ziele
politischer Gewaltanwendung; Bewertung des Verhaltens staatlicher
Stellen bei der politischen Auseinandersetzung; Parteiidentifikation;
Wahlverhalten bei der Bundestagswahl 1972; Selbsteinschätzung der
Schichtzugehörigkeit; Einschätzung der eigenen politischen
Wirkungskraft; allgemeine Beurteilung des jugendlichen Protests;
Vertrauen in die Bundesregierung; frühere wirtschaftliche Verhältnisse
der Eltern; Sozialisationsinstanzen in der Kindheit; soziale Herkunft;
Parteipräferenz der Eltern; persönliche Arbeitslosigkeit und Beurteilung
der eigenen Arbeitsplatzsicherheit; Mitgliedschaft in Vereinen oder
einer Gewerkschaft sowie Grad der Aktivität in der Organisation;
Selbsteinschätzung auf einem Links-Rechts-Kontinuum; Ziele im
Berufsleben; gute und schlechte Seiten der Parteien.

Bei Jugendlichen: Kontakt zu den Eltern; Beziehung zur
primären Umwelt; Gesprächsthemen und Meinungsverschiedenheiten mit den
Eltern; Einstufung der Eltern auf einem Links-Rechts-Kontinuum;
Vorstellungen vom zukünftigen Leben; Beziehung zu den Freunden; Beruf
der Freunde.

Demographie: Alter (klassiert); Geschlecht; Familienstand;
Familienzusammensetzung; Konfession; Religiosität; Schulbildung;
Berufsausbildung; Berufstätigkeit; Berufslaufbahn; Einkommen;
Haushaltseinkommen; Haushaltungsvorstand; soziale Herkunft.

Interviewerrating: Anwesenheit anderer Personen; Häufigkeit der
Unterbrechungen während des Interviews; Interesse des Befragten am
Interview; Anzahl der Kontaktversuche; Interviewdauer; Interviewdatum.

Zusätzlich verkodet wurden: Intervieweralter; Interviewergeschlecht;
Intervieweridentifikation und Interviewerpraxis in Wochen.

Idea, event, ideology / Iain MacKenzie -- Ideology and imaginary / Caroline Williams -- A world beyond ideology? / Robert Porter -- City life and the conditions of possibility of an ideology-proof subject / Kieran Keohane -- Rehabilitating ideology after poststructuralism / Siniša Malešević -- The dialectics of the real / Diana Coole -- Ideology, language and discursive psychology / Michael Billig -- The birth of the subject and the use of truth / Mark Haugaard