Ideology and Consciousness Notes

In our in-class study of semiotics, my group was looking at Ideology and Consciousness. These are my notes.

Ideology is the values and morals we were raised around. They were other peoples' values that became our own because we grew up with them.

The main examples that my group found on ideology are Russel's Teapot and Plato's cave.

False Consciousness (I looked at this more than plain consciousness) is when the ideology that you grew up around shapes the ways you think (consciousness) to the point that you act without thinking why- you don't think through what you're doing because that's just the way it's done according to your ideology.