 | David McLellan - Social Science - 1995 - 128 pages
...considerably expanded both the Further Reading and the Bibliography. David McLellan 1 The Career of a Concept Ideology is the most elusive concept in the whole...application) of which there is acute controversy.' With significant exceptions, the word ideology comes trailing clouds of pejorative connotation. Ideology... | |
 | John Daniel Cash - History - 1996 - 254 pages
...has recently noted, this feature renders the concept of ideology 'elusive' for the very reason that it 'asks about the bases and validity of our most fundamental ideas'. 2 As McLellan's phrasing suggests, differing responses to questions concerning the bases of ideology... | |
 | Seth Jacobs - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 398 pages
...159. 13 Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction (London, 1991), xiii. 14 David McLellan notes that “Ideology is the most elusive concept in the whole of social science?' McLellan, Ideology (Minneapolis, 1995), 1. 15 Willard Mullins, “On the Concept of Ideology in Political... | |
 | Showan Khurshid - Political Science - 2006 - 505 pages
...Tsui-James, p. 457). 203 There is almost unanimity regarding the difficulty of studying ideologies. 'Ideology is the most elusive concept in the whole...(and therefore application) of which there is acute controversy'(David McLellan, pl). And as Adams says: 'Among political concepts none is more muddled... | |
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Ideology is the most elusive concept in the whole of social science. For it asks about the bases and validity of our most fundamental ideas. As such, it is an essentially contested concept, that is, a concept about the very definition (and therefore application)... 