Guzikova M. (Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia))
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This article gives an overview of the methodology elaborated by political scientist of the Oxford school Michael Freeden for the analysis of ideology (ideologies) and political concepts. Freeden defines the subject of ideology and makes a distinction between political philosophy and ideology. Spe-cial attention is given to the function of ideology as the instrument of in-fluencing political thought-behaviour and political decision-making. Freeden’s analysis integrates approaches of political science and methods of linguistics, anthropology and history of ideas. Freeden defines ideology as a grouping of political concepts. Political concepts, in their turn, con-sist of ineliminable and interchangeable components. The choice of com-ponents has to follow the logical and cultural adjacency. However, their meaning is deprived not from the sum of the components’ meanings but through their place in the conceptual cluster. During the interaction of concepts their meaning is being decontested. Conceptual cluster contains central concepts, adjacent concepts, peripheral and marginal concepts. This cluster is dynamical, concepts in it can move from one position to another. There is not one ideology, but variants of it (not one liberalism, but liberalisms). Freeden’s approach may be used for the analysis of po-litical concepts in any given political text.
Keywords:M. Freeden, political concept; ideology; morphology of ideology as methodology of ideology research
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Guzikova M. Towards the analysis of political concepts: M. Freeden`s methodology // Современная наука: актуальные проблемы теории и практики. Серия: ГУМАНИТАРНЫЕ НАУКИ. -2016. -№04. -С. 27-32 |
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