Review of Chapter 4:
DiscourseI common sense and ideology
An ideology is a set of beliefs, values and norms held by a group of people or a party; it can be political, social, economic or even religious. In Merriam-Webster we can find ideology defined as follows: “ideology originated as a serious philosophical term, within a few decades it took on connotations of impracticality thanks to Napoleon, who used it in a derisive manner. Today, the word most often refers to “a systematic body of concepts,” especially those of a particular group or political party. On the other hand, common sense can be defined as a belief or value that all the members of a certain society practice and take it by granted, in other words, a common sense is the natural ability to make good judgments and to behave in a practical and sensible way.
The relationship between the
common sense and ideology was discussed by Gramcsi which he describes it as “a
form of practical activity” n which a 'philosophy is contained as an implicit
theoretical “premises”, and 'a conception
of the world that is implicitly manifest in art, in law, in economic
activity and in all manifestations of individual and collective life'. We can
say that ideology and the common sense can be two faces of the same coin. For
examples, there are many religious ideologies that become a common sense within
the society of certain people. So I believe that common sense is just an
alternative name of the term “ideology”. However, oftentimes ideologies are
disseminated by the elites and the ones who own the means of productions. And
the most apparatus which disseminate ideologies is media in general and then
the role of the citizens come to develop it to a common sense throughout the
practice.
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