PATRIARCHATE AS IDEOLOGY

Abstract

With two time conceptions (linear and cyclic), the author wants to present the confrontation between »the White Male System« and other »marginal systems. At the same time, he brings together the terms patriarchate and ideology, and in order to answer the question what such ideology is necessary for and what the system itself serves for, he observed the importance of family and old people, the role of myth and custom and through their interaction he reached life and natural cycles. According to this, old people and family preserve, in the ideational sense, the patriarchal system through myth and custom, and this can easily be observed in the comparison of life and natural cycles which consist of birth, marriage and death. Birth and death are connected with Christmas and Christmas Eve, and marriage (i.e. wedding) with the beginning of spring (which is St. George's Day). Finally, the existence of patriarchal ideology is explained as the securing of in- heritance (»power« and »authority) for male descendants.