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Official ideology is founded upon behavioural ideology inasmuch as ideological systems are crystallisations of ideas present in behavioural ideology. Yet behavioural ideology is subject to a reciprocal influence by official ideology, often having its ‘tone’ set by the latter, and, in cases of ideological struggle, partly incorporating ‘forms’ and ‘practices’ of ideological systems which it seeks to alter or displace. Behavioural ideology is the more sensitive of the two, as demonstrated by its ability to register barely noticeable aspects of emergent social change.

AE] Further reading: Gay 1984, 1986; Habermas 1989a. bricolage Engaging metaphor developed from Lévi-Strauss’s structural anthropology. The French word ‘bricoleur’ refers literally to the sort of worker capable of mending or maintaining any machinery and installation by re-using items from elsewhere, typically improvising new uses for these items. So, in cultural theory, and especially the analysis of subcultures, the term refers to the processes by which elements are appropriated from the dominant culture, and their meaning transformed, for example through ironic juxtapositions, to challenge and subvert that culture.

Rather, the status of art work will be conferred upon the object by the artworld. The artworld is defined, by Dickie, as ‘a loosely organised, but nevertheless related, set of persons including artists…, producers, museum directors, museum-goers…, critics…, philosophers of art, and others’ (Dickie 1974:35–6). In summary, it is a largely self-defined group of people, who express an interest in art, and thus negotiate the current status of particular artefacts. g. medieval or antique works created before the modern concept of ‘art’ had been formulated) may be accorded the status of art now, and similarly, objects once considered to be art may have that status removed from them.