Chapter 1: A Return of Ideology? Ideology in a Post-Ideological World Heiko Beyer Part 1: Concepts and Theories Chapter 2: The Sociology of Knowledge and the Problem of Ideology Jan Weyand Chapter 3: "A Notion that Cannot Be Used Without Taking Precaution": Michel Foucault's Contribution to the Analysis and Critique of Ideologies Christian Schmidt Chapter 4: Systems Theory and Ideology: Traces of a Problem Isabel Kusche Chapter 5: Good Reasons for Ideologies? A Rational Choice Perspective on Ideologies Annette Schnabel Chapter 6: The "Non-Identical" and the "Leftover": Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and Ideology Christine Kirchhoff Chapter 7: Nine Theses for a Theory of System Justification John T. Jost and Jojanneke van der Toorn Part 2: Methods and Empirical Approaches Chapter 8: The Social Psychology of Authoritarianism and Ideology: Classic and Contemporary Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Alexis N. Goad and Daniel Sullivan Chapter 9: Mixed Methods and Multimethod Research: Method Integration and the Critique of Ideology Felix Knappertsbusch Chapter 10: The "Semi-Conscious Knowledge" About Ourselves: The Ideology of Common Sense and the Method of Collective Memory-Work Virginia Kimey Pflücke Chapter 11: Cliches of Homelessness in Times of the Housing Crisis: A Depth Hermeneutical Case Analysis Saskia Gränitz Part 3: Contemporary Ideologies Chapter 12: (Right-wing) Populism as an Ideology? Considerations on a Permanent Structural Defect of Democracy Oliver Hidalgo Chapter 13: "Those Were the Good Times": On the Significance of Critical Theory's Ideology Critique for Today's Critique of Racism Ulrike Marz Chapter 14: Intersectionality between Ideology and Critique Karin Stögner Chapter 15: The Ideology of Antisemitism: On Its Persistent Presence as Resentment and Worldview in the Global Age Lars Rensmann Chapter 16: The Social Psychology of Conspiracy Ideologies Roland Imhoff.