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Chang, Gordon C.

 
9783031176814: Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times
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ISBN 10 : 3031176812 ISBN 13 : 9783031176814
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Synopsis

Ideas influence people. In particular, extremely well-developed sets of ideas shape individuals, groups, and societies in far-reaching ways. This book establishes these "idea systems" as an academic concept. Through three intense episodes of manipulation and mayhem connected to idea systems--Europe's witch hunts, the Mao Zedong-era "revolutions," and the early campaign of the U.S. War on Terror--this book charts the cognitive and informational matrices that seize control of people's mentalities and behaviors across societies. Through these, the author reaches two conclusions. The first, that we are all vulnerable to the dominating influence of our own matrices of ideas and to those woven by others in the social system. The second, that even the most masterful manipulators of idea programs may lose control of the outcomes of programmatic manipulation. Amongst this analysis, sixty-plus central conceptual terminologies are provided for readers to analyze multiform idea systems that exist across space, time, and cultural contexts.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gordon C. Chang is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Western Illinois University, USA. He has taught political and cultural sociology classes at both Western Illinois University and University of California, Davis. His works in discourse analysis have appeared in Pragmatics, Discourse and Society, and the Journal of Language and Politics.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3031176812
ISBN 13 
9783031176814
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
440
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