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Constructing meaning in the service of power: An analysis of the typical modes of ideology in accounting textbooks
Ist Teil von
Critical perspectives on accounting, 2009-11, Vol.20 (8), p.896-909
Ort / Verlag
London: Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Quelle
ScienceDirect
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This paper provides an analysis of the typical modes of ideology in introductory financial accounting textbooks and training materials. Drawing on Thompson's [Thompson JB. Ideology and modern culture: critical social theory in the era of mass communication. Cambridge: Polity Press; 1990] schema concerning the typical linguistic modes through which ideology operates, this research suggests that the operation of ideology is apparent within educational accounting texts, with particular strategies being more evident than others: in particular, the strategies of universalization, narrativization, rationalization and naturalization. Given the predominantly technical nature of introductory financial accounting textbooks and training manuals, the modes of ideology identified in the texts were often quite subtle; more specifically, the ideological characteristics displayed in each of the six texts analyzed were often expressions of implicit or taken for granted assumptions.