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Spirova, E. M. Symbolic nature of a stereotype

Abstract: the article contains a critical overview of the stereotype theory by an American journalist and sociologist Walter Lippman. The author analyzed the historical background for that conception, underlined the role of a stereotype in mass ideological processes and pointed out the danger of massification of society.


Keywords:

philosophy, psychology, public mind, stereotype, information, public opinion, propaganda, rationality, fact, ideologization


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