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ideology

An ideology is a set of beliefs or values attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely about belief in certain knowledge, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones". Formerly applied primarily to economic, political, or religious theories and policies, in a tradition going back to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, more recent use treats the term as mainly condemnatory.

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An ideology is a set of beliefs and values held by a person or group, often shaped as much by practical interests as by what people actually know to be true. The term originally described economic, political, or religious systems, but today is frequently used negatively to suggest that someone's views are driven by bias rather than objective fact.

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Etymology
History
Definitions and analysis
Marxist interpretation
Ideology and the commodity (Debord)
Unifying agents (Hoffer)
Ronald Inglehart
Political ideologies
Ideology and state
Epistemological ideologies
Psychological explanations of ideology
Ideology and the social sciences
Semiotic theory
Sociology
Quotations
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

The term was coined by Antoine Destutt de Tracy, a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher, who conceived it in 1796 as the "science of ideas" to develop a rational system of ideas to oppose the irrational impulses of the mob. In political science, the term is used in a descriptive sense to refer to political belief systems.