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Ideology

An ideology is a set of ideals, values, or beliefs that is attributed to a person or group of people, especially those held for reasons that are not purely about belief in certain knowledge, and in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones". It is related to, but distinct from, a worldview.

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Ideology and the social sciences

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related to Bibliography · 153
Ideology → Alien Powers, Althusser, American Foreign Policy, American Political Science Review, An Introduction, Annotated Edition, Belloni, Bureau, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Christian, Class Consciousness, Claudio, Concept, Conceptual Approach, Conservatives, Cornell University Press, Culture, David, Debord
related to Unifying agents (Hoffer) · 23
Ideology → Action, Charlatanism, Coercion, Eric Hoffer, God, Hatred, He, Hoffer, Imitation, Islamic, It, Leadership, Mass, Often, Original, People, Persuasion, Suspicion, The, The American
related to Ideology and state · 17
Ideology → Believer, Brinton's, Certain, Crane Brinton, Different, Eric Hoffer's The True, In The Anatomy, Joseph Stalin, Napoleon, Revolution, Robespierre, The, Thermidor, This, Vladimir Lenin, When, William Fulbright
related to Definitions and analysis · 15
Ideology → David, Definitions, George Walford, Harold Walsby, Ideologies, Manfred Steger, Minar, Paul James, Recent, Studies, The, There, These, They, Through
related to history · 14
Ideology → Antoine Destutt, Bonnot, Condillac, He, Hoping, July, Locke, November, October, Reign, Terror, The, Tracy, While
related to Marxist interpretation · 13
Ideology → Antonio Gramsci, For, For Marx, Hence, In, Marx, Marx's, Marxist, Ruling, Slavoj, Some, The, The Sublime Object
see also · 13
Ideology → Belief, Beliefs, Book, Crane BrintonThe True Believer, English-language, Eric HofferWorld Values Survey, Fundamental, Global, Range, Revolution, Schools, Soviet UnionThe Anatomy, State
related to Etymology · 11
Ideology → An, By, Destutt, English, French, Greek, It, Lockean, Over, The, Tracy
related to Epistemological ideologies · 8
Ideology → Deep, Earth, Even, Gibson, Green, James, Linguist George Lakoff, Perceptual
related to Psychological explanations of ideology · 7
Ideology → Althusser, Hardin, Jost, Ledgerwood, Many, Psychologists, The

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Ideologyis amost generic term because the 'science of ideas' also contains the study of their expression and deduction.According to Karl Mannheim's historical reconstruction of the shifts i…0.90text
Ideologyis a'coherent system of ideas' that rely on a few basic assumptions about reality that may or may not have any factual basis0.90text
Ideologyis amost prominent aspect of the superstructure0.90text
Ideologyis acertain ethical set of ideals0.90text
liberalisminstance ofideologies0.80text
social democracy dominateinstance ofideologies0.80text
Vladimir Lenininstance ofextremists0.80text
Robespierre may thus overcome more moderate revolutionariesinstance ofextremists0.80text
Michael Freeden have also recently incorporated a semantic analysis to the study of ideologies.SociologySociologists define ideology asinstance ofpolitical life.Authors0.80text
Michael Freeden have also recently incorporated a semantic analysis to the study of ideologiesinstance ofpolitical life.Authors0.80text
Ideologyrelated to BibliographyAlthusser0.60section

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