An ideology is literally a structured ideal, systematically created as follows: Premise: The basic concepts of the ideal state or objective of the ideologyCorrelatives: The working principles used to achieve the ideal Rules and laws: The requirements for conformity with the ideal Ideologies may be based on religious, social, political, or economic grounds. In many cases, they're a combination of these elements. In practice, they tend to expand and become more complex as the practical issues related to the concept, principles, rules and laws become more involved. |
Examples of Ideology:
Socialism- Started out as a particularly complex socio economic ideology, and devolved into a series of related but antagonistic ideologies: MarxismBolshevism Leninism Communism Trotskyism Stalinism Maoism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology |
![]() Karl Marx posits that a society's dominant ideology is integral to its superstructure. |