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Political Ideologies: Lesson 2

Political ideologies involve understanding political ideas and phenomena. Ideologies provide comprehensive, pervasive, and extensive sets of ideas that command strong commitment. They address human needs, provide understanding of history, and explain the social order. Ideologies perform important social roles by answering fundamental questions, explaining how the world works, and guiding behavior.

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Political Ideologies: Lesson 2

Political ideologies involve understanding political ideas and phenomena. Ideologies provide comprehensive, pervasive, and extensive sets of ideas that command strong commitment. They address human needs, provide understanding of history, and explain the social order. Ideologies perform important social roles by answering fundamental questions, explaining how the world works, and guiding behavior.

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POLITICAL

IDEOLOGIES
LESSON 2
POLITICAL
IDEOLOGIES
-INVOLVES THE NATURE, ROLE,
AND SIGNIFICANCE OF POLITICAL
IDEAS IN UNDERSTANDING THE
VARIOUS POLITICAL
PHENOMENON.
POLITICAL
IDEOLOGIES
AND ITS MEANINGS
Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754 –
1836)
•Coined the term ideology during the French
Revolution and is used in public in 1796.
•Ideologie is a new ‘science of ideas’
according to Tracy.
WHAT FORMS AN
IDEOLOGY?
Beliefs are people’s assessment of reality
and what they hold to be true. While,
values are people’s ideas about right or
wrong.
IDEOLOGY MEANINGS:
• an action – oriented set of political ideas;
• Ideas of the ruling class;
• World view of a particular social class or social group;
• Political ideas that embody or articulate class or social
interests;
• Ideas that propagate false consciousness amongst the
exploited or oppressed;
• Ideas that state the individual within a social
context and generate a sense of collective
belonging;
• An officially sanctioned set of ideas used to
legitimate a political system or regime;
• An all-embracing political doctrine that claims
a monopoly of truth;
• An abstract ang highly systematic set of
political ideas.
DISTINGUISHED
IDEOLOGIES FROM
IDEAS
MACRIDIS IN RANNEY, 1995
COMPREHENSIVENESS
An ideology covers embraces ideas pertaining
many great matters, such as human beings placed in
the universal domain, man’s relationship to Divine
being, the highest goals of society and government,
the essential nature of people, and the best means of
achieving the highest social and political objectives.
PERVASIVENESS
The set of ideas has not been known for a long
time but has shaped the political beliefs and
actions of many people. Before Christ, democracy,
oligarchy, and autocracy, are widely talked about,
and that great movement has fought those
ideologies for over 2,000 years.
EXTENSIVENESS
The set of ideas is held by a large
of people and plays a vital role in
nations and states political affairs.
INTENSIVENESS
The set of ideas commands a strong
commitment from many of its adherents and
significantly influences political beliefs and
actions.
CHARACTERISTI
CS OF IDEOLOGY
•Ideologies have their levels end in –ism.
•Ideologies provide an explanation for
problems that confronts modern societies by
providing futuristic vision.
•Ideology is action-oriented.
•Ideologies mobilize a large number of people.
FEATURES OF
IDEOLOGY
HEYWOOD, 2012
• It offers an account of the existing order,
usually in the form of a world view.
• It advances a model of the desired future, a
vision of the good society.
• It explains how political change can and
should be brought about- how to get from
the two other features.
INTELLECTUAL
COMPONENTS OF AN
IDEOLOGY
• Values
• The vision of the Ideal Polity
• The conception of the Human
Nature
• The strategy of Action
• Political Tactics
FUNCTIONS OF
IDEOLOGIES
1.Ideology addresses a basic human psychological
need such as safety, freedom, and community.
2.Ideology provides its believers with a sense of
understanding history and with clues about what
kinds of things they should pay attention to or
ignore.
3.Ideology is essential.
4.Ideology is powerful.
SOCIAL ROLES OF
IDEOLOGY
1.Ideologies answer eternal questions and
cut off competing beliefs and values;
2.Ideologies explain how the universe
works and why it works that way; and
3.Ideologies tell us how to behave; they
help us predict the future.

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