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Althusserian  analysis  was  absorbed  by  British  cultural  studies
                 in the  1970s. Here are three  key ideas. The  main  ideological
                 instruments  of society -  law, religion, education, family -  are just
                 as  important  as economic  conditions.  Culture  is  neither  totally
                 dependent  on  nor totally  independent  of  economic  conditions
                 and  relationships.  Ideology  does  not  construct  "false
                 consciousness"  as  traditional  Marxists  had  always argued.





















































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