Ideological Function Research Articles

Research on strengthening the ideological function of "Situation and Policy" courses in universities

The course of ideological and political theory is the main battlefield and channel of ideological education in universities. At present, the ideological function as a qualitative attribute of the "Situation and Policy" textbook has not formed a widespread understanding in academic theoretical research and university education practice, and its ideological function is still greatly limited. To strengthen the ideological function of the "Situation and Policy" course, it is necessary to adhere to the principles of Marxism as the guide, cultural education, and student-centered education, in order to improve the unique pertinence and timeliness of the "Situation and Policy" course and give full play to its essential attributes of ideological education.

Analyzing metaphor patterns in COVID-19 news pictures: A critical study in China.

Drawing on Critical Metaphor Analysis, this study investigates major metaphors of the COVID-19 pandemic used by the Chinese government in the specific genre of news picture. It examines patterns of metaphor use in the first year of the pandemic in China and explains how and why the government employs the identified metaphors in the Chinese political context. Results reveal that pandemic metaphors (45%) are not as widely used in news pictures as presumed, the vast majority (95%) are rendered in verbal mode, and the most salient metaphors used in news pictures are the UP/DOWN (spatial), WAR, FAMILY, and COMPETITION metaphors. This study then addresses how COVID-19 metaphors are used in the Chinese political context and claims that the Chinese government uses specific metaphors with persuasive and ideological functions. The WAR metaphor aids comprehension of abstract concepts of the pandemic treatment, the FAMILY metaphor fosters empathy among Chinese individuals to counter blame and discrimination in society, UP/DOWN (spatial) and COMPETITION metaphors stimulate action to overcome the common "enemy." WAR and FAMILY metaphors also contribute to the construction of a greater sense of collectivism and play a crucial role in fostering a positive national identity. Implications, limitations and some directions for future research are suggested.

Актуальные вопросы функционирования национальной правовой идеологии как основы правосознания сотрудников правоохранительных органов

The article deals with issues characterized by an ever-growing degree of relevance, namely those related to the national legal ideology. At the same time, some of its aspects are analyzed by the author from the point of view of the role in the process of forming the legal consciousness of persons directly involved in law enforcement activities through the implementation of the law enforcement function, on the basis of which there is drawn a conclusion about the importance of the effective functioning of the national legal ideology to prevent the destructive transformation of the professional legal consciousness of law enforcement officers as indicator of the shape of the legal culture of society.

The Dilemma and Response of Ideological Education in Colleges and Universities

As the front line of youth ideology and public opinion, the actual effectiveness of ideological education in colleges and universities is directly related to the answer to the important question of “what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate people, and for whom to cultivate people”. There is an urgent need to closely combine the universality of ideological functions with the special requirements of ideological construction in colleges and universities. Ideological education in colleges and universities is faced with realistic dilemmas in terms of environment, subject and object, carrier and discourse, etc. The extreme importance of ideological work determines that strengthening ideological education in colleges and universities is imperative. Therefore, it needs to be guided and regulated by means of era orientation, value orientation, carrier extension and discourse transformation.

Threats of the fourth industrial revolution to the development of national socio-economic systems

The rapid development of technologies has initiated the emergence of an information technology concept that integrates computing resources into physical processes. New technologies that combine physical, information and biological worlds can create opportunities and threats. The purpose of the article is to research a number of theoretical issues related to analyzing the threats of the fourth industrial revolution to the development of national socio-economic systems. With the modern state of technology, socio-economic systems should be considered cyber-physical, in which the organizational, economic, technological, mental and institutional, and other aspects of functioning are interrelated. Changes to the fourth industrial revolution are planned through various technological interventions and the formation of desirable human behavior. This allows the use of resources, technology, and information that are contrary to the interests of individual national socio-economic systems. The lack of universal ethical perceptions of the fairness of the socio-economic system jeopardizes international instruments for balancing the interests of national States and the global economic system. A unique role in ensuring the development of socio-economic systems belongs to a person with a holistic perception of the world, a system of values, and decision-making criteria for their functioning. The socio-economic system should be considered a living, open system that needs to be developed to influence the movement process and achieve the desired state by managing this process. National socio-economic systems' stability and efficiency depend on the flexibility and rigidity necessary to ensure their integrity. Keywords: the fourth industrial revolution, the socio-economic system, the global economy, the ideological function of managing the socio-economic system.

Rhetorical Functions of Multiple Narrators and Focalization Shifts in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone

Exploring the rhetorical functions of the multiple-narrator structure and constantly changing focalization in Wilkie Collins’s epistolary novel The Moonstone is the focus of this study. Key events with regard to the loss of the Indian diamond are narrated in a repetitive pattern, each time with a shift in perspective depending on who remains in the focal position. Genettian concepts of alternating internal/external focalization and multifarious functionalities of narrator(s) are embodied in The Moonstone, culminating in a prevailing sense of mystery, ambiguity as well as an equivocal state of reality as generic conventions, yet on an underlying level, they reflect the ambivalent engagement with imperialism in the novel. The witness-narrator, Gabriel Betteredge, is constantly involved in a number of extranarrative roles alongside his narrating function: the directing function, communication function, testimonial function and ideological function that help to establish a relationship with the implied reader. The multiple-narrator structure and the use of focalization shifts as well as various narrative and extranarrative functions as sources of power are the main features in the novel that expose its uncertainty in response to the idea of empire.

Alienated Heroines in Basil, Lady Audley’s Secret, and East Lynne: A Jaeggian Reading

Abstract While the term ‘alienation’ is frequently mentioned in criticism of sensation fiction, there is a lack of a stringent definition of this term. This article aims to address this gap with a focused examination of the depiction of alienation in three sensation novels, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) by M. E. Braddon, East Lynne (1861) by Mrs Henry Wood, and Basil (1852) by Wilkie Collins. Borrowing a critical framework from contemporary philosopher Rahel Jaeggi, the article sees alienation as an obstructed relation of ‘appropriation’. According to Jaeggi, to appropriate is, briefly, to take oneself and one’s world at one’s own command. The relation of appropriation bespeaks a more profound relationship between the self and the world than ownership. Previous studies of sensation heroines often associate their alienation with their desires for material property. With Jaeggi’s critical framework, however, this article moves forward by identifying a parallel between the heroines’ troubled desires for material possessions and their problematic relationships in life. Through a Jaeggian lens, all three texts illustrate the heroines’ dispossession of the self and dispossession of property as profoundly, even structurally, linked. A Jaeggian reading of the novels also provides new insights into the genre’s ideological function, particularly in relation to the limited social roles and precarious hold on the material world faced by ambitious Victorian women.

New Trends in Cultural Studies in the System of Modern Humanitarian Education

The analysis in this article is based on the new trends in the system of cultural education in the context of students’ ideological training. Based on the materials of the International Scientific Conference within the framework of the XVIII Kolosnitsyn Readings, organized and conducted by the Department of Cultural Studies and Socio-Cultural Activities together with the Russian Cultural Society on November 17, 2023, the author reflects on the realities and prospects of humanitarian education. An obvious fact in the scientific discussion that took place is not only interdisciplinarity as the basis of modern cultural education, but also the emergence of new concepts and trends in its structure in the context of the challenges of the XXI century, which contributes to the activation of its axeological, aesthetic and ideological functions.

An alternative to the Confucianism: Buddhist doctrine of «chakravartin» in political structures of the Three Korean Kingdoms

Religion has been the basis of the statehood of various nations since ancient times. This article analyzes the role of the Buddhist concept of “chakravartin” (ideal universal ruler) in the political structures of the Korean statehood of the Three States period. The author believes that in the context of the decline of Confucianism against the backdrop of an ideological crisis and political fragmentation in China in the period from the beginning of the 3th century to the end of the 6th century. Buddhism, having an active political potential, has become a full-fledged ideological alternative to the teachings of Confucius. Korea, as a permanent recipient of Chinese culture, was also influenced by Buddhism, which was reflected in subsequent changes in the state ideology of the Korean states. To explore this issue further, this article provides a comparative description of the Buddhist and Confucian state theories, a list of the main socio-political factors that contributed to the acquisition of the functions of state ideology by Korean Buddhism, as well as an analysis of the state administration system of each of the three Korean kingdoms: Koguryeo, Paekche and Silla. Due to the lack of historical evidence about their state ideology in the written sources of the period, the author relies mainly on indirect sources of information – in particular, archaeological finds. Moreover, various Buddhist canonical texts were used to conduct a comparative analysis using "chakravartin"’s archetypes in other countries of the Asian region.

Supplemental Material for Supporting the Status Quo Is Weakly Associated With Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of the Palliative Function of Ideology Across Social Status Groups Using a Meta-Analytic Approach

Supplemental Material for Supporting the Status Quo Is Weakly Associated With Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of the Palliative Function of Ideology Across Social Status Groups Using a Meta-Analytic Approach

Por um gesto de leitura materialista do discurso da avaliação em saúde: critérios e padrões

ABSTRACT This essay is based on the epistemological concerns of health evaluators in their search to understand the meanings of their professional practice and their theoretical formulations. Such concerns emerge from the strangeness accumulated over years of work in the field and a growing questioning, given the naturalization of the relationship between the concepts used in health evaluation and their implications for the maintenance of power relations. In this essay, we present an analytical proposal for understanding the concepts mobilized by health evaluation supported by Michel Pêcheux’s Discourse Analysis, Louis Althusser’s Materialist Philosophy, and Georges Canguilhem’s Historical Epistemology. We propose a materialist reading approach for the analysis of the standardized discourse about the development of evaluation, seeking to contribute to overcoming idealistic readings around approaches and standards that succeed one another and are stabilized as truths, with a view to advancing towards a historical understanding. Understanding the formation of the conceptual discourse around the social practice of health evaluation in Brazil-and, thus, understanding the ideological functioning of its enunciation-can aid us to deepen the analysis of the meanings that operate in the practice and formulation of this social space.

“We must study and honour the scholars who... brought Russian scholarship to the forefront”: N. S. Lebedev’s Defence of the Thesis on V. G. Vasilievsky in 1943

The focus of this article is N. S. Lebedev’s dissertation (1943) entitled “V. G. Vasilevsky as a Byzantine Scholar”, which was carried out by the evacuated Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences in Tashkent. The author refers to the transcript of the meeting of the Academic Council, Lebedev’s biographical materials kept for his thesis (RAS archive), and his publications. As early as the late 1930s, Lebedev had intended to write a thesis on Byzantium and the Mongols, but the inaccessibility of sources and literature during the Great Patriotic War changed these plans. In the end, a historiographical topic was chosen. Given the scarcity of such studies, a research programme had to be developed. Lebedev did not limit himself to outlining the main conclusions of the central figure of his thesis but sought to analyse the factors of Vasilievsky’s formation as a scholar and the conditions of the emergence of Byzantine studies in Russia. He also assessed the merits and shortcomings of the pre-revolutionary scholar’s work. The opponents who spoke at the debate, namely, V. I. Picheta, S. K. Bogoyavlensky and E. A. Kosminsky, emphasised the importance of the “political moment” of the defence of the thesis and the significance of Vasilievsky for national and world scholarship, paying less attention to the characteristics of Lebedev’s work. The historian’s conclusions indicate a desire to demonstrate the leadership of Vasilievsky and Russian scholarship in the study of Byzantine history. The research thus served an important ideological function, i. e. to demonstrate the achievements of Russian scholars. By updating the pre-revolutionary legacy, the debate serves as a certain marker of the revival of Byzantine studies in Russia, which began in the late 1930s and entered their active phase in 1943.

The Soviet and Post-Soviet Anthrobscenes: Speculations from Cheburaska to Khulkulya

This paper seeks to investigate the representation of and presence of non-human animals through the framework of new media theorist Jussi Parikka's conceptualization of the "Anthrobscene."Additionally, an examination of Marxist-Leninist thought concerning both environmentalist policies and practices of early childhood education is essential to formulating a well-rounded understanding of the innate political nature of these anthropomorphic representations and, in turn, how the treatment of animals, both domestic and wild, are considered reflexively by the Soviet state and the current Russian Federation through both a Soviet example (Cheburashka the abstracted and unspecified mouse-cat-primate creature) and a more modern environmentalist mascot (Khokhulya the Russian desman), both of which are duly reflective of their political contexts and social imaginings. Through an analysis of historical contextualizations and the modern mascot representation of the animal as a means of either social or philosophical change as well as practical environmentalist aims under the new capitalistic system post-1990s, Cheburashka and Khokhulya respectively serve to articulate and exemplify a comparison between the ideological functions of both economic systems within the broader field of animal and early childhood media studies.

Inside the Phoenician City: The Spatial and Ideological Functions of Sanctuaries in the Process of Urban Place-Making – Three Case Studies

Inside the Phoenician City: The Spatial and Ideological Functions of Sanctuaries in the Process of Urban Place-Making – Three Case Studies

Representations of the Holocaust in Bulgarian postwar literature

The study deals with the theme of the Shoah in Bulgarian postwar literature, which includes both works of fiction (authors like Viktor Baruh, Salis Tadzher, Simcho Isakov etc.) published in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria (1946–1990), and literature of Bulgarian Jews in Israel (Albert Beni, Albert Mihael, Albert Varsano etc.). The article is an attempt to interpret the selected works (novels, novellas, short stories, poetry and memoirs) with regard to various discursive strategies that have changed and adapted to different socio-political contexts in both countries. The themes of the Shoah and the anti-Jewish policy of tsarist Bulgaria could take on diverse ideological functions depending on the context. Literature thus became an important component of various memory constructs in postwar Bulgaria and as well as in Israel.

Paradoxes of Historical Consciousness in Ulaanbaatar Monumental Sculpture. Ideological Function of Monuments in the Context of “Mongolian National Revival” in the 21st Сentury

This article deals with Ulaanbaatar monumental sculptures which have been produced during the course of the last 20 years. It studies various processes typical of the socio-political and cultural life of present-day Mongolia that impressed greatly content as well as style of many monuments erected in honor of the outstanding leaders of this country. The core idea of these artworks consists in developing the concept of the national identity which became characteristic of the spiritual life of Mongolia after the Democratic Revolution of 1990. In its turn, this concept is based on specific interpretation of Mongolia’s historical past which is focused on the figure of Chingis khan as an embodiment of the national idea. The establishment of his cult in the democratic country with market economy forms an essential element in the process designated in this article as “Mongolian national revival”. Within the general framework of the state cultural policy, this tendency found its expression in erecting a wide range of various monuments dedicated to the Great Khan as well as other rulers of mediaeval Mongolia. On the other hand, it’s also evident that this policy implies an idea of historical continuity that provides a link between different epochs of Mongolian history. This leads to the conclusion that Communist leaders of the People’s Republic of Mongolia are nowadays considered as the true hears of the mediaeval rulers of the country because they also contributed to the Mongolian civilization building. This article demonstrates what kind of artistic means have been implemented in solving this task. One of the major concerns consisted in involving the viewer in comprehending meaning of the monuments. This stimulated the emergence of the new and highly innovative artistic typology of the monumental-didactic sculptural ensemble exemplified in the monument to the singer S. Tsogtsaihan.

The functions of a Municipal Law as a branch of law: debatable issues of theory

In article problems of the theory of functions of a modern Municipal Law are considered. The basic essential and meaningful, objective and subjective, internal and external aspects of modern Municipal Law. It is noted that among the basic tasks that are currently faced domestic science Municipal Law, is the formation of a coherent and comprehensive knowledge of the system of municipal law of Ukraine, its legal aspects and patterns of development and operation of its norms and institutions. A holistic conception of the Municipal Law of Ukraine in the unity of its static and functional, material and procedural elements are important theoretical and methodological basis for the development and improvement of the system of national municipalism, current municipal legislation and municipal law-making and law enforcement activities.
 However, if the theory of problematic issues of Municipal Law as in law, its genesis, sources, norms and institutions are reflected in the works of Ukrainian researchers, the problem functions of this area of law remains almost unexplored. Understanding the nature and content of the functions of Municipal Law makes it possible to understand the importance of this area of law to regulate social relations and answer questions about the role of Municipal Law in society and the state.
 It is proven that the legal features and qualifications of the functions of municipal law find their logical continuation in each independent group of these functions, which can be distinguished according to the appropriate division criteria. These criteria, which are the basis for the classification of functions of municipal law, should include: a) objects of influence of municipal law. According to this criterion, it is necessary to distinguish such objective functions of municipal law, from among the main ones, such as political function, economic function, social function, ideological function and corresponding external functions of municipal law; b) ways and means of influence of municipal law on relevant social relations. Such functions should include regulatory, establishing, protective, control, integrative (system-forming), law-making, law­enforcing, informational, axiological and a number of other functions of municipal law; c) conditions of influence of municipal law on relevant social relations. Such functions should include temporal (permanent and temporary) and territorial (national and local).
 These criteria are the main criteria for the classification of functions of municipal law and do not exclude the possibility of identifying other criteria that would make it possible to improve their classification.

ПРОФСПІЛКИ УКРАЇНИ В УМОВАХ РАДЯНСЬКОГО ПОЛІТИЧНОГО РЕЖИМУ (1945–1991)

In the post-war years democratic principles were effectively nullified in the practical activities of Communist party structures at both the central and local levels. The role of the appointed party apparatus continued to expand, reinforcing bureaucratic methods of management. Centralism permeated all aspects of society, elevating arbitrary management techniques. The party, represented by the apparatus, assumed control over all facets of life. Trade unions constituted a link in the Soviet political system. Under the conditions of the totalitarian regime, they were subordinated to the party, transforming into a quasi-state entity performing political, industrial, and ideological functions as defined for them. Trade unions did not play an independent political role in the USSR and Ukrainian SSR. They merely served as a “transmission link from the party to the masses”, an additional tool for social regulation and a conduit for party influence in production across millions of workers engaged in various branches of the economy, culture, and science. The primary function of trade unions, protective in nature, took a backseat. They were now primarily tasked with production objectives such as “organizing workers and employees to fight for the steady development of the national economy...”. In essence, trade unions transformed into a branch of the administrative apparatus, intended to ensure the implementation and over-implementation of business plans, and increase labor productivity. Furthermore, they fulfilled certain ideological and educational functions based on Lenin's definition of trade unions as “schools of communism”. They had at their disposal clubs, houses of culture, libraries, and movie theaters. The cultural realm became a massive and potent channel through which the perception of the steadfastness and “correctness” of the principles of the totalitarian system was ingrained in the minds of the people.

La fondazione di Nicopoli tra ideologia e politica

Abstract Nicopolis foundation betwenn ideology and politics The paper aims at analyzing the multiple meanings that the foundation of Nicopolis by Octavianus implied. Whereas the modern scholarship commonly focuses on the ideological function of the foundation – namely the celebration of Octavianus’ victory over Antonius in the battle of Actium– it will be shown that Octavianus, by means of the foundation of the city, also aimed at conveying precise political messages both to those that supported him against Antonius and to the allies of the latter. The analysis of literary sources and epigraphic documents will also permit to explore some examples of responses among Greek communities to Octavianus’ victory at Actium and to the subsequent foundation of Nicopolis.

Adorno's Critical Theory of "Cultural Industry" and its Enlightenment

Adorno's critical theory of cultural industry mainly analyzes the commercialization attribute, standardization characteristics and ideological function of cultural industry. However, this theory has certain historical limitations, including the failure to critique the capitalist system, disregarding the positive role of technical rationality, and ignoring individual subjectivity. Nonetheless, this theory also provides us with some modern insights, such as the importance of actively developing the cultural industry to drive economic growth, constructing a socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, and utilizing the power of the internet and big data to drive cultural industry development.