Ideological Criticism

In Chapter 7 of the book Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice the Fourth Edition, the author Sonja J. Foss prefaces her explanation of Ideological Criticism with a basic definition to outline the idea of ideology. Foss offers the reader an example to think of ideology as a language, so to speak. With this language one perceives the world in a particular fashion, funneling all external happenings through previously held ideas which allows a person to compare, categorize, and make sense about the matter. This language is developed through life experiences in a formulations of ideas that reflect "fundamental social economic, political, or cultural interests."