Conceptual Structure and Social Change: The Ideological Architecture of Democratization

by Sara Schatz

Overview

Examines transitions to democracy and develops a theory of ideologies as complex cognitive systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313077241
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/30/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	264 KB

About the Author

SARA SCHATZ is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Latin American Center at the University of Florida.

JAVIER JESÚS GUTIÉRREZ-REXACH is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Categorization and Social Agents: The Case of Democratization
A Cognitive Model of Concepts and Ideology
Ideological Systems, Dynamics, and Constraints
Mass Attitudes in the Transition to Electoral Democracy
Governing Elites, Counter-Elites and the Struggle to Shape Mass Opinion
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index