What is your favorite (short and readable) text for helping students sort out the various ways the term "ideology" has been used in the social sciences?

#socialscience #teaching #anthropology #ideology #sociology #philosophy

@kerim I read Geuss’s The Idea of a Critical Theory in an undergraduate philosophy of social science class

https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Critical-Theory-Frankfurt-Philosophy/dp/0521284228

Amazon.com: The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Modern European Philosophy): 9780521284226: Geuss, Raymond: Books

Amazon.com: The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School (Modern European Philosophy): 9780521284226: Geuss, Raymond: Books

@kerim Raymond Williams' Ideas of nature springs to mind, wherein he points out that when people talk about 'nature', seemingly the most natural thing of all, a surprising amount of culture/ideology sneaks in through the back door

and it (the pdf, not nature) exists as a handy pdf, to boot

https://wcerion.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/williams-ideas-of-nature.pdf

@kerim I haven't seen one. The concept of ideology in anthropology – that would be a great addition to the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology.

Its use in linguistic anthropology alone could fill an Annual Review of Anthropology essay, let alone its application across all social sciences...