Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET January 2017 Political Science
Who among the following said, 'Ideology is the most elusive concept in the whole of Social Science'?
AMartin Seliger
BDavid McLellan ✓ Correct
CJB Thompson
DJohn Plamenatz
Answer: B
Explanation
★The line that ideology is the most elusive concept in the whole of social science is David McLellan's.
★He opens his book Ideology (1986) with exactly this remark, underlining how contested and slippery the term has always been.
★McLellan traces the idea from its origins through Marx and later thinkers, showing why no single definition has ever settled the matter.
★Martin Seliger and J.B. Thompson also wrote influential studies of ideology, but this opening line is McLellan's.
★John Plamenatz wrote on ideology as well, yet he is not the source of this statement.
★So David McLellan is the correct answer.
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