Editing Ideology (section)

=== Semiotic theory ===

According to semiotician [[Bob Hodge (linguist)|Bob Hodge]]:<ref>[[Bob Hodge (linguist)|Hodge, Bob]]. "[http://www.semioticon.com/seo/I/ideology.html# Ideology] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905215511/http://www.semioticon.com/seo/I/ideology.html |date=2008-09-05 }}." ''Semiotics Encyclopedia Online''. Retrieved 12 June 2020.</ref><blockquote>[Ideology] identifies a unitary object that incorporates complex sets of meanings with the social agents and processes that produced them. No other term captures this object as well as 'ideology'. [[Michel Foucault|Foucault]]'s '[[episteme]]' is too narrow and abstract, not social enough. His 'discourse', popular because it covers some of ideology's terrain with less baggage, is too confined to verbal systems. '[[Worldview]]' is too [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]], '[[propaganda]]' too loaded. Despite or because of its contradictions, 'ideology' still plays a key role in semiotics oriented to social, political life.</blockquote>Authors such as [[Michael Freeden]] have also recently incorporated a [[semantics|semantic]] analysis to the study of ideologies.