Key Concepts in Sports Studies by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 635479
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Published: 2014-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

THE CRITICS

As a concept, ideology has been attacked by a number of contemporary postmodern theorists. For instance, the notion of ideology as ‘false’, ‘distorted’ or ‘misleading’ ideas and practices has been challenged by writers influenced by the French historian of ideas Michel Foucault. Foucault’s conception of power has been seen as a significant theoretical advance on the notion that we can reveal and undermine ideology through identifying reality. Foucault’s notion of power resists the idea that there can be a form of thought or action that is outside the production of power differentials. For Foucault, there is no reality that is outside of attempts to describe it – an increasingly popular view in the social sciences, often referred to as the ‘linguistic turn’. Ideology, for Foucault, always stands in relation to some conception of truth and this is where it should be replaced by a conception of power which admits to no ultimately legitimate or truthful ‘outside’.

Similarly, the concept of hegemony as developed in Cultural Studies (see Hegemony) has been regarded by some (such as Raymond Williams in his Marxism and Literature, 1977) as offering a broader, more nuanced and sophisticated account of the workings of political power and domination. Hegemony, its proponents such as Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe claim, (Laclau and Mouffe, 1985) avoids both the truth/falsity trap of much Marxist theorising on ideology and allows the notions of political agency and resistance to play a more significant role in the elaboration and contestation of power relations.

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