Ideological Perspectives Research Articles

What Would Happen If We Banned Billionaires?

This essay delves into the debate surrounding the proposition of banning billionaires due to the rising economic disparities evident in the global landscape. With the ultra-rich amassing unprecedented wealth, especially during the pandemic, the question arises: Would banning billionaires serve as an antidote to escalating wealth inequality? Drawing on varied ideological perspectives, this paper scrutinizes the reasons underpinning the desire to ban billionaires and the rationale for their continued existence. By analyzing the potential outcomes of such a ban, both positive and negative, the discourse highlights the intricacies of the issue. The essay concludes by presenting alternatives to an outright ban, suggesting a multifaceted approach to achieving a more equitable economic environment.

Hiring police applicants who support far-left or far-right organizations: A qualitative exploration of New York State chiefs’ and administrators’ viewpoint

This study is a qualitative exploration of the thoughts of police chiefs and upper-level police administrators in New York State regarding the hiring of applicants who hold left-wing or right-wing ideological perspectives. A near equal number of respondents indicated little hesitancy to hire, while others stating they should not hire such an applicant. Some respondents offered non-committal viewpoints. Most respondents provided a more thoughtful response, indicating the complexity of this issue for police agencies. The overall conclusion is that employing officers who hold biased opinions can impact police legitimacy. Policy implications and considerations for future research are discussed.

The U.S. cable televisions' framing of mass shooting: a grounded discovery of competing narratives

News frames play a vital role in shaping the audience's interpretation of the news, their participation in policy discussions, and their engagement in public discourse. This study uses the Analysis of Topic Model Networks (ANTMA) frame analysis grounded approach and examines the 2017 Sutherland Springs, Texas, mass shooting coverage in a house of worship by three U.S. cable television networks—CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. News reports for the first seven days following the shooting were collected from the cable networks' Twitter, YouTube, and website accounts. A total of 290 news reports were analyzed and 760 aggregate units for frames were coded. The results demonstrate that ANTMA grounded approach is an effective method for frame analysis and support research about the news media's emphasis on victims, community, and individual frames in cases of mass shootings. They identify differences in the issue-based frame of gun vs. mental health debates. Additional new frames of empathy, interventions, reactions, and security were discovered. Results also show differences in frames used and their frequency between the digital platforms of Twitter, YouTube, and websites and cable organizations. These differences show each media network's ideological perspectives or competing news narratives. The findings raise relevant questions to news coverage, policy debates about mental health and gun violence, and cultural awareness of the problem of mass shootings and public safety as the world becomes more global.

¿Imperialismo y colonialismo son lo mismo? Breves aproximaciones teóricas para intentar dilucidar ambos conceptos

From different disciplines and/or ideological perspectives of the field of Social Sciences there are different conceptions in relation to the terms imperialism and colonialism. The following essay, through an interpretative analysis, will aim to approach what can be understood them based on the contributions of different authors.

Ideology and Historiographic License in Chinese Legal Scholarship

Chinese legal historians and Chinese Communist Party ideologues engage with historical materials in order to advance various ideological projects, including subversive ideological perspectives. At the same time, historical scholarship appeals to many Chinese legal scholars because it is not seen and experienced as being as ideologically sensitive a field as other branches of Chinese legal scholarship. Chinese legal historians themselves have acknowledged their ability to discuss controversial topics—their “historiographic license”—through legal historical research. This article describes Chinese legal scholars’ historiographic license through the tools of rhetorical theory. The subversive elements of Chinese legal historiography can be attributed to the use of figurative language, which conveys forbidden meanings through innocuous surface text. Figurative language allows Chinese legal scholars to subtly question ideological doctrines—which they may support in other social contexts—without having to negate these doctrines explicitly. Historiography arguably even offers Chinese legal scholars a means to question their own ideological beliefs.

Unraveling the Language and Ideology: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Permendikbudristek No.30 Year 2021 in Republika Newspaper

This study examines the ideological construction in the national newspaper Republika (a newspaper with an ideological perspective on Islam in Indonesia and reader responses to the news regarding Permenristekdikti No. 30 of 2021. The method used in this study is critical discourse analysis. The research technique is qualitative descriptive. This research has explained the ideological construction through the Fairclough framework for critical discourse analysis (CDA) by applying it to news texts, articles/opinions from experts, editorials/editorials, and main reports published mid to late November 2019, a total of 13 articles, in details, five articles in the form of news, four articles including the main report, 1 article in the form of articles/ opinions from education experts, and 2 in the form of editorials, only 1 article was published by Republika which is a form of support for this regulation. An in-depth analysis was carried out on intertextuality. In the modality analysis, the use of modalities in the news text studied was dominated by epistemic modalities compared to three other modalities, namely intentional, deontic, and dynamic modalities. The use of these modalities in positive or negative sentences represents a certain ideology (Requests from education experts and Islamic mass organizations that Permendikbudristek Number 30 of 2021 be reviewed; accommodate religious guidance, Islamic teachings, Pancasila, the 1945 Constitution, and cultural values in Indonesia. An ideology can be detected by analyzing the linguistic corpus data on the selected diction in the concordance series. The corpus data in the concordance series strengthens the ideology of the newspaper. Among the word series in concordance are Permendikbudristek (80), violence (72), agreement (44 ), criticism (10), and revised (5).This study examines the ideological construction in the national newspaper Republika (a newspaper with an ideological perspective on Islam in Indonesia and reader responses to the news regarding Permenristekdikti No. 30 of 2021. The method used in this study is critical discourse analysis. The research technique is qualitative descriptive.This research has explained the ideological construction through the Fairclough framework for critical discourse analysis (CDA) by applying it to news texts, articles/opinions from experts, editorials/editorials, and main reports published mid to late November 2019, a total of 13 articles, in details, five articles in the form of news, four articles including the main report, 1 article in the form of articles/ opinions from education experts, and 2 in the form of editorials, only 1 article was published by Republika which is a form of support for this regulation. An in-depth analysis was carried out on intertextuality. In the modality analysis, the use of modalities in the news text studied was dominated by epistemic modalities compared to three other modalities, namely intentional, deontic, and dynamic modalities. The use of these modalities in positive or negative sentences represents a certain ideology (Requests from education experts and Islamic mass organizations that Permendikbudristek Number 30 of 2021 be reviewed; accommodate religious guidance, Islamic teachings, Pancasila, the 1945 Constitution, and cultural values in Indonesia. An ideology can be detected by analyzing the linguistic corpus data on the selected diction in the concordance series. The corpus data in the concordance series strengthens the ideology of the newspaper. Among the word series in concordance are Permendikbudristek (80), violence (72), agreement (44 ), criticism (10), and revised (5).

Painting the narrative: Police body-worn cameras, report writing, and the techno-regulation of policework

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) have emerged in response to calls for greater police transparency and accountability. Leveraged as techno-regulatory tools with the potential to influence officer behavior, BWCs may also afford officers opportunities to review video footage prior to writing incident reports, which has implications for how police-public interactions are documented in official records. In this study of BWC adoption by a police agency in the United States, we examine how officers’ ideological perspectives on BWCs, technological limitations, and policy-related concerns influenced their decisions about whether and how to review video as part of their report writing practice. In conclusion, we argue that police practitioners and policy-makers should provide clearer policy guidance to officers about how BWC footage should be used in the report writing process and that police administrators, policy-makers, and researchers should directly consider the role that technology might play in regulating officer behavior, even in unintended ways.

Responses to News Overload in a Non-Partisan Environment: News Avoidance in China

Studies conducted in Western democratic countries with privately owned press presenting news from different ideological perspectives have found the phenomenon of news overload causes stress in media users (affective load) and this leads to news avoidance behavior. This study, conducting a structural equation modeling using AMOS 27, investigates the relationships between news overload, affective load, and consequent news avoidance behavior in China. The findings suggest, consistent with studies in Western democratic jurisdictions, that news overload and affective load influence users’ news avoidance behavior. However, in contrast to studies outside of China, this study found demographic variables of age, gender, education, and occupation had no statistically significant influence on avoidance behavior by Chinese social media news consumers. The results suggest that either social attributes and responses by media users in China are significantly different from those in Western countries or ideology plays an important role in avoidance behavior and the impact of ideology is different across different demographic groups in Western jurisdictions.

Women’s Empowerment and Confidence in Pop Music: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Little Mix’s Lyric Song “Change Your Life”

Empowering women in home, the workplace, the market and the community require building self-confidence which is a challenging matter. It is not easy to inspire people to have a better sense of self-worth and endeavor better personal, social and economical life. Pop music nowadays, can inspire people and basically women to change and have better life. This paper intends to investigate women’s empowerment and confidence in Little Mix’s pop lyric song “change your life” through the feminist critical discourse analysis approach. This paper aims to identify the linguistic concepts of women’s empowerment and their ideological perspectives. The problem under investigation implies that women’s issues are still of interest to study in different disciplines but instead of focusing only on how women are portrayed and represented in different genres such as reports, essays, movies, network and music; the direction has changed to identify the linguistic concepts that empower women. Therefore, different transitivity processes are intended to address women’s mentality and emotional appeal which reflect in turn different social ideologies. The data involve the analysis of Little Mix’s band lyric song “change your life”. The paper is conducted through the qualitative research approach based on an eclectic model including Lazar’s (2005) “Feminist Critical Discourse Perspective”, Fairclough’s (2003) Three-Dimensional Model and Halliday and Hasan’s (1985) Systematic Functional Linguistics model. The study concludes that Pop music depends on using three types of transitivity processes including material, mental and relational in order to improve women’s mentality, confidence and desire to create change in their life.

Unmasking Political Narratives: A Study of Political Memes in Pakistan

This study explores the complex world of political memes to understand their function as cultural agents. The study examines political memes' effects on intra-party and inter-party ideology, communication, and political perspective evolution. The study used a survey method, sending out professionally designed questionnaires to undergraduates and graduates at Quaid-e-Azam University, Arid Agriculture University, and other institutions, as well as to newly minted professionals. Data was carefully collected to ensure accuracy. The results show that political memes can stimulate several responses, with the most common being identity and belief strengthening. This research also reveals how political memes may either divide people or bring them together, testing the convictions of those willing to have their opinions examined.

Newsroom Ideological Diversity and the Ideological Sorting of Journalists

In efforts to curb ideological bias in the news, citizens, academics, and journalists have highlighted the importance of newsroom ideological diversity. Using a large-scale survey of newspaper political journalists in the United States, we examine the diversity of ideological perspectives of political journalists across newspapers and communities and how ideological misalignments with the newsroom and the local community relate to those journalists’ employment decisions. We find political newspaper reporters regularly work for newspapers and in communities that do not mirror their own ideological perspectives. However, by following newspaper political journalists’ employment decisions over a three-year period, we also find that the ideological differences between those journalists and the newsroom where they work (but not ideological difference with the local community) are related to an increase in journalists’ desire to change jobs and in the likelihood they will actually seek other employment, either within journalism or outside of the profession.

Disruptive protest, civil disobedience & direct action

Disruptive protest has become increasingly studied and promoted across the social sciences, not least in relation to climate protests. This paper asks what the rationale and effects of disruptive protest are. It argues that disruptive protest carries a prefigurative legitimacy, envisaging a more democratic and just society while aiming for broader appeal and legitimacy rendered by liberal discourses. The paper takes a political theory perspective through both the literature on civil disobedience and the anarchist literature on direct action. It then explores how the key attributes of these literatures render legitimacy to the practices and discourses of two social movements that have made widespread use of disruptive protest in recent years: the Spanish anti-eviction movement Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) and the mainly British climate change movement Extinction Rebellion (XR).

Why truth is necessarily pragmatic

Abstract This essay presents an array of arguments demonstrating that truth is necessarily pragmatic. Evaluations of truth derive from human experience, from the individual’s weltanschauung which molds their point of view and ideological perspective. Consequently, within any community, there exist alternative truths. Traditional takes on truth are reviewed. The fuzziness of many truths is examined. The existence within the community of alternative, sometimes contradictory, truths is explicated and shown to be fairly common in practice, even though it can occasionally lead to social dissension. The essay expatiates on the alleged incontrovertibility of logical, mathematical, and scientific truths (supposedly true in all possible worlds) showing that they are necessarily subject to specific conditions which render the assessment pragmatic. In sum, Φ is true resolves into Φ functions as true under specific conditions a 1…n . Certainly, a hegemonic group within the community will often assert a preference for one truth over its alternatives, but that does not eliminate the existence of alternative truths within that community. The only way to manage this state of affairs is to admit that truth does not exist independent of human beings but is necessarily evaluated according to the set of perceptions, conceptions, and beliefs that constitute the individual’s weltanschauung at the time the judgment is made, such that different weltanschauungen often give rise to different judgments about what functions as true.

Tactics and Principles: A Contribution to Dobrogeanu-Gherea’s Interpretation of Anarchism with Reference to ‘Legal Socialism’

Abstract Early socialism from the second half of 19th century Romania is experiencing a systematic comeback among historians and social scientists. The works of Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, the founding father of Romanian Marxism, occupy a central place in this newfound attention towards the origins and struggles of socialism in Romania. This paper addresses Gherea’s interpretation of anarchism on par with his doctrine of ‘legal socialism’. Its purpose is to prove how anarchism acts as a more than tactical catalyzer for legal socialism, placing the latter not necessarily on a new ideological perspective, but further on the terrain of Romanian political status-quo of late 19th and early 20th century Romania. Although more principled than tactical, Gherea’s repudiation of anarchism in progressively unsubstantial Marxist terms has also led to tactical shortcomings. This was the case of the first Romanian socialist party, which was dissolved and absorbed after only six years of existence within the ascending liberal party.

Analisis Illat Ribawi Menurut Empat Madzhab Fikih

Business dynamics progress shows some data that lead to more riba for businessmen, even though this advancement succeeds the nation's economic development, but the illegality of riba is undeniable based on several verses in the Qur’an. This research aims to grasp four Madzhab Fiqh (Islamic law ideology) perspectives, particularly about the essence of illat ribawi wealth and the effect of its different views on riba transactions in Islamic economics. Library research is applied through this paper as a documentary is used for data collection while a content analysis technique is taken to analyze it. The paper results showed that there are various Islamic scholar’s perspectives about illat-ribawi on gold and silver which are classified as scale, ghalabah tsamaniyyah, and muthlaqutssamaniyyah. This article concludes that all of the Islamic law scholars agree that riba category works on six things which mentioned by the prophet’s tradition with different opinions about the illat.

Holy Communion in Greek Orthodoxy in the Time of Coronavirus: Ideological Perspectives in Conflict

This article examines the controversy over the mode of distribution of Holy Communion that surfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on debates that took place in the Greek Orthodox community. After describing and evaluating the role of secular and religious experts in the context of the pandemic, the paper analyzes three main perspectives on the issue of the Eucharist: (1) the secularist-rationalist viewpoint; (2) the religious–traditionalist outlook; and (3) the “Third Way” perspective. The paper argues that the Church’s Holy Communion controversy is indicative of a deeper struggle between religious and secular thinkers and among various voices in the Greek Orthodox Church concerning the latter’s place in, and influence over, the modern secular socio-political order.

Translating Arabic–Indonesian Captions on TikTok Social Media

The present study aimed to analyze the captions of TikTok application from the perspective of translation techniques, methods, and ideology. As a matter of fact, although many scholars have researched the application of TikTok as a learning medium, less is known about it from the perspective of translation studies. The data of this study were derived from Arabic–Indonesian captions in the personal accounts of Abu Danah and Ahmad Al-Kurman, uploaded families from August to December 2021. The findings showcased the most dominant translation techniques found in 27 captions in the Abu Danah family account. 20 captions of Ahmad Al-Kurman were identified as a transposition translation technique. The translation method found in the caption of Abu Danah family account tended to use communicative methods and domestication ideology. In contrast, the translation method and ideology inclined to be used in the translation of Ahmad Al-Kurman's captions were free a translation method and the ideology of domestication. The study’s results concluded that the applications of transposition translation technique, the translation method tending to target languages, and the domestication ideology referred to translators' efforts to make it easier for readers to understand the translation results on TikTok media with its minimal space. Thus, short-form Arabic social media texts should be applied the free translation method based on domestication ideology in order to have a high level of readability.

Illusions and Realities in the Film Green Book From the Perspective of Ideology

Film, from Louis Althusser’s standpoint, serves as one of the powerful ideology state apparatuses in the form of popular culture and mass media, to achieve the effect of interpellating the individuals as subjects, and constructing imaginary identity. This paper, based on specific theories on ideology, especially that of Althusser’s, tends to analyze the ideology issue in the Hollywood film Green Book (2018), including what kind of ideologies the film fabricates, how it fabricates them, and what kind of ideology such fabrication gives away. Through scrupulous exploration, this paper maintains that by narrating the reconciliation story between the American white and black, Green Book actually aims to disseminate to the audience specific ideologies in class, race and the American nation, in order to console the masses and dilute the social conflicts. Yet, besides the ideology desired by the film, there is “an ideology behind ideology” the film betrays.

The role of ideological and intergroup mechanisms in predicting opposition to redistribution and discrimination against the lower social class

In light of the continuing rise of economic inequality, understanding why even individuals who are concerned about it often still oppose redistributive policies is crucial. This research investigates two mechanisms that may contribute to this phenomenon. Across two studies (N1 = 172; N2 = 232), we find that capitalist ideology strongly predicts opposition to redistributive policies, above SDO as a measure of anti-egalitarianism. This provides support for an ideological perspective whereby opposing redistribution is understood as the result of an endorsement of capitalism with its rejection of government interference in the economy. On the other hand, we did not find support for an intergroup approach whereby, akin to discrimination, opposition to redistribution is understood as a harmful act against its would-be recipients. Classism, referring to negative stereotypes about the lower social class as the beneficiaries of redistribution, predicted only interpersonal discrimination but not support for redistributive policies. We conclude that when it comes to the issue of economic inequality and how to remedy it, the crucial obstacle to redistributive policies appears not to lie in negative perceptions of their recipients but a more fundamental ideological opposition.

Critical Stylistic Analysis of Trafficking Victims in Corban Addison “A walk Across the Sun”

Human trafficking across borders and even continents is one of the numerous ways that slavery is practiced today. For the victims, the effects are invariably devastating. The harsh world of child prostitution is described in a novel .The present study shed light on the issues of human trafficking and its impact in the lives of human beings. Critical stylistic analysis seeking the ideological consequences of human trafficking that deals with literary representation i.e novel of “A walk across the Sun” by Corban Addison who pay attention for different aspects of human exploitation where in victim of sex trafficking as a common trade of exploitation. The study focuses ideological perspective of human trafficking. The analysis of the discourse “A walk across the Sun” explore the traumatic conditions of young victims of trafficking of trafficking .The hidden ideologies of the novel reveal the concept of domination, violence, maltreatment of women. By analyzing of the text critical stylistic applying Jeffries (2010) tools, the researcher identifies different types of human trafficking nature.