COGNITIVE APPROACH IN THE STUDY OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
https://doi.org/10.18384/2224-0209-2022-5-1122
Abstract
Aim. Critical analysis and conceptual reception of the cognitive trend in the study of political ideologies.
Methodology. In the course of the study, a conceptual-analytical method was used, which made it possible to identify the basic provisions of scientific theory and/or methodology based on the analysis of key scientific texts. The paradigm works of Paul Ricoeur, John Brookshire Thompson and Michael Freeden were analyzed.
Results. It is shown that in the understanding of ideologies there has been a significant shift from interpreting this phenomenon as a means of distorting social reality, masking conflicts and contradictions, as well as producing illusions, to a more complex and multi-layered interpretation of ideology as a cognitive matrix of group consciousness as an interpretive code and a symbolic tool for establishing and reproduction of dominance. The concept of ideology within the cognitive approach was conceptualized.
Research implications. The systematization of the main conceptual elements of the cognitive approach to the study of political ideologies, carried out in the article, creates the basis for a deeper reception in the domestic social sciences of the methodological tools of this approach and a more adequate understanding of the nature of ideologies.
Supporting agencies: This research was supported by an SFedU project “Digital Atlas of Political and Socio-Economic Threats and Risks of Development of the South Russian Border Area: National and Regional Context (“Digital South”)” No. SP-14-22-06.
About the Author
Mikhail S. Konstantinov
Southern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Political Sciences), Assoc. Prof., Department of Theoretical and Applied Political Science, the Institute of Philosophy and Social & Political Sciences
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