false consciousness
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffalseandconsciousness
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false
adjective
uk/fɒls/us/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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consciousness
noun[U]
uk/ˈkɒn.ʃəs.nəs/us/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs.nəs/
the state of understanding and ...
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(Definition offalseandconsciousnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffalse consciousness
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How could he, and he alone, be naive and immersed in bad faith andfalseconsciousness?
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Back in 1973, there was no suggestion that the woman was ever labouring under any kind of ideologicalfalseconsciousness.
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It is that the theory of ideology must, of necessity, rely upon some notion offalseconsciousness.
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Here we skirt the deep waters offalseconsciousness, of reification and mystification.
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From this point of view, the problem offalseconsciousnessmay be reformulated.
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Its parallel in psychoanalysis is called critique offalseconsciousness.
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The role of stereotyping in system-justification and the production offalseconsciousness.
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Cultural pessimists have frequently criticized mass culture as a form offalseconsciousnessor dismissed it as a pernicious escape from reality.
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As in communities of interest, so too in analogous 'extended communities of experience' there is room forfalseconsciousnessabout their shared interests.
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Seen from this point of view, the theory of ideology as a theory aboutfalseconsciousnessis but one possible response to that need.
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He prefers to analyse what workers actually did to ' ' organise themselves in opposition to employers and the state, ' ' rather than use abstract and unproven models offalseconsciousnessor exceptionalism.
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Is local discourse, to play with parody, just an expression offalseconsciousnessto be ignored, or is it a wealth of insightful material to which outside interests are blind?
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The memoir reminds us of the mundane priorities of ordinary people and of unsophisticated points of view which may be dismissed, too easily, as products of afalseconsciousness.
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Then there is 'falseconsciousness'.
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Ideology is not simply a 'falseconsciousness', an illusory representation of reality, it is rather this reality itself which is already to be conceived of as 'ideological'.
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Someone could be deprived of such capabilities in many ways, e.g. by ignorance, government oppression, lack of financial resources, orfalseconsciousness.
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Marr also insisted that the notion that a people are united by common language was nothing more thanfalseconsciousnesscreated by bourgeois nationalism.
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These include efforts at manufacturing consent and elicitingfalseconsciousness.
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Engels considered religion as afalseconsciousness, and incompatible with communism.
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