justice, scientific progress, good health, social mobility). Therefore formal ideologies can easily be understood as recognized religions, political tendencies or established philosophies such as Christianity, Islam, capitalism, socialism, Darwinism and feminism, to name a few – while informal ideologies are more context specific and not as universally applicable or established as formal ideologies such as the American Dream, No Child Left Behind, or “first come, first served” (Foss, 2009, p. 209). Foss goes on to explain that multiple ideologies can coexist within a given culture, but the privileging of some ideologies over others results in a phenomenon called hegemony. The consideration of hegemony is what makes ideological analysis critical, as it employs a Marxist flavor in comparing how the ideologies of the dominant group prevail over the ideologies of groups with less power. Hegemony fosters social control because the dominant group determines the dominant ideologies of a culture that