In Raymond Williams writing, “The Analysis of Culture” he discusses that there are three types of culture. There is the ideal culture, high culture that is of value and will be eternal, documentary culture, recorded and documented history of human thought and experiences, and social culture, actual societies behavior, institutions, and practices. This means that within culture our values and way of life are categorized into three different subjects, each representing our complex communities and individuality in three different ways. With this definition of culture though, is culture only subjected to humans, or can other beings like ants possess culture as well? In this paper I will discuss how ants do not have culture and how ideology and
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To expand on this, superior individuals in a society will create and reinforce this structure that society should follow that distorts the reality and perception of those below them to ensure that people follow the system and stay in their places in order to benefit the superior. Ideology exists within culture because it “...permeates all man’s activities...”, meaning that it exists within all aspects of life and culture exists within all aspects of life as well. As well as that, in order to create an ideology there must be individuality and free will within a society. One prime example of this ideology that created a mass spread within culture was Hitler and his ideology that the Germans were superior above Jewish people. As we saw in lecture in the clip from Leni Riefenstahl’s, “Triumph des Willens”, Hitler’s ideology had been thoroughly accepted by the German society and the presence of his ideology was expressed in their culture with the use of swastikas and the celebration of Hitler as a figure of the German society. In order to influence everyone to believe in these false ideologies, those expressing them would use rhetoric and interpellation to attract and connect with the individuals so they can see themselves within the ideology and allows the superior to stay dominant. As Althusser expressed, “Ideology is thus destined, above all, to assure the domination of one class over the
To expand on this, superior individuals in a society will create and reinforce this structure that society should follow that distorts the reality and perception of those below them to ensure that people follow the system and stay in their places in order to benefit the superior. Ideology exists within culture because it “...permeates all man’s activities...”, meaning that it exists within all aspects of life and culture exists within all aspects of life as well. As well as that, in order to create an ideology there must be individuality and free will within a society. One prime example of this ideology that created a mass spread within culture was Hitler and his ideology that the Germans were superior above Jewish people. As we saw in lecture in the clip from Leni Riefenstahl’s, “Triumph des Willens”, Hitler’s ideology had been thoroughly accepted by the German society and the presence of his ideology was expressed in their culture with the use of swastikas and the celebration of Hitler as a figure of the German society. In order to influence everyone to believe in these false ideologies, those expressing them would use rhetoric and interpellation to attract and connect with the individuals so they can see themselves within the ideology and allows the superior to stay dominant. As Althusser expressed, “Ideology is thus destined, above all, to assure the domination of one class over the