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interpellation  

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  • Louis Althusser introduced this idea to describe how ideology works to shape people and place them in social structures. Rather than see ideology as a set of beliefs inside consciousness, which rather implies people could choose to believe something different, we should view ideology as a social process that ‘picks out’ people and gives them a particular subjectivity. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Interpellation]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JNPLV5P4-N

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