The Psychology of Culture: Why are Certain Ideologies Embraced and Perpetuated?______________________________________________________________________________________

RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY:: TOWARD THE FINAL SOLUTION
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An ideology is a system of beliefs held in common by a group of people within a given society. Having identified a society’s “dominant discourses”—its prevailing narratives—the question remains: Why are certain ideologies or beliefs systems present within a given society?

Why have certain ideas—among all those put forth by human beings—been embraced and perpetuated? A psychological approach to the study of culture poses the question, “Why?”
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The CSUN College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is pleased to present the Richard W. Smith Lecture in Culture Studies with special guest, Dr. Richard A. Koenigsberg. Psychologist, historian and leading authority on Hitler and Nazism