ABSTRACT
Sociologists have often taken an interest in the part played by ideology within institutional formations of society and broader dynamics of social change. The social and cultural means by which power is exercised in society is featured as a mainstream sociological concern. Certainly, both in works of theory and in the conduct of empirical research, many sociologists are concerned to address the moral and political interests at stake in the ways that symbolic forms of culture are used to bring social problems to our attention.
