It also served the ideological function of introducing visitors to the culture of its "socialist sister states".

This deterministic approach suffers by seeing the prison as existing to remove people from circulation, rather than its ideological function of social control.

Mr. Burns is trying to give the word leadership a moral or ideological function, even at the risk of hollowing out its descriptive one.

The answer is simple: it fulfills both an ideological and didactic function.

According to Marxists, even literature itself is a social institution and has a specific ideological function, based on the background and ideology of the author.

Success of the literary process becomes a measure of the balance achieved between artistic techniques and ideological functions.

Secondary literature concentrates mostly on the ideological function and the corresponding developments after the war.

For Bodemann ideological labor outlines the ways in which ethnic groups perform a specific ideological function within society.

The new penal facilities served an essentially ideological function that made little impression on the nation's criminal population.

But this epistemology itself is parasitic upon other practices, which serve the same ideological function.