Ideologies are sets of basic beliefs about political, economic, social and cultural affairs held by members of a society that guide the formation of political patterns over time. Political ideologies generally refer to a set of ideals and principles that explain how society should work and offer a blueprint for social order, with goals for how society should be organized and methods for achieving those goals. Common ideologies include anti-government ideologies like anarchism that want to abolish government, right-wing ideologies that oppose change and promote order, left-wing ideologies like socialism and communism that promote social equality, and liberalism which supports individual freedom and a system of rules and laws.
2. Ideologies
- Are the sets of basic beliefs about the political, economic, social and
cultural affairs held by the majority of people within a society.
- It connotes a set of doctrines or beliefs that are shared by the
members of a social group or that form basic of a political, economic, or
other system.
- Guide the formation of a political pattern or subculture that becomes
an acceptable political norm or leaning over time.
3. Political Ideologies
- Generally refer to a set of ideals, principles, institution , or large
group that explains how society should work, and offers some
political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order.
- Has two dimensions and that is he goals and methods, where
with every desired goal there is a corresponding method.
- The goal is how society should be organized and the method
should be the most appropriate way to achieve this goal.
4. - Ideology now acts as a filter; adherents to use
interprets events, explain human behavior, and justify
political actions.
- It is any set of predictable ideas held by politicians and
citizens or how o serve public good.
5. 1. Anti- government Ideologies
- The most common example is Anarchism. It is political ideology that
literally wants to abolish the government, usually through violence and
acts of lawlessness. The good side of this however, is its goal- a society
of self- governed individual with better freedom.
2. Right- Wing Ideologies
- Ideologies that oppose change, looking into the past for wisdom.
Uncommon for some people to be afraid of change, especially if they have
seen a more effective type of ruling.
- Ideologies on the right have shown its effectiveness already, thus
clarifying reason why some people would rather choose ideologies from
the right.
- Goal of this types of ideologies is to have order and piece.
6. - Another ideology n this side is fascism, a totalitarian political system
led by a great or charismatic leader together with his political party.
- It is almost identical to communism, except that the economic structure
in this ideology is privately owned.
- The bad thing about this ideology is that is based too much on
nationalism and racism, which is the reason why one country which
followed this later on started the World War.
7. - Most powerful ideology of the right and most prevalent one is
Capitalism.
- Ideology is widely practiced throughout the world which is actually
the basis of first world countries’ which will be discussed later on.
- Actually fuelled by the phase “ Greed is good” , which although is
not stated directly by the character in Wall Street, but in the trailers a
number of cuts resulted in this phase, coming from the sentence”
Greed, for a lack of a better word, is good .”
8. 3. Ideologies to the Left
- Left- wing Ideologist, as opposed to Right-Wing Ideologies, promote
human beings to live together as a whole without separations like
those of social barriers which classifies people to be either in he
upper-class or the lower-class, or even in the middle class.
- The aim of this side is to have social equality, to support those who
are considered to be in disadvantage compared to others, and also to
abolish the injustice about inequalities.
9. - Socialism, one of the ideologies falling under this category, is mainly
about government ownership and rejects the idea of individuals.
- Opposed to the idea of capitalisms private ownership and the ability to
control the production, the production made in socialism is solely to
satisfy the needs of those who need it, not for the intent of selling those
goods.
- This type of production would theoretically put an end to buying and
selling.
10. - Right- Wing Ideology is communism, which most people define as
radical equality.
- Aim of this ideology is to replace private properties and profit based
economies with public ownership.
- Used with Marxism, the ideology founded by Karl Marx, the writer
of the famous Communist Manifesto.
- All societies involved through historical stages, representing a
dominant economic pattern (thesis) which contains seeds of new
conflicting patterns (antithesis) which when clash will result to
synthesis, a new economic stage
11. Conservation
- The early stages of Conservations are outline to be reaction to the
events surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.
- And then the modern conservative school of thought can be found
from the 18th century British philosopher Edmund Burke and his work
Reflection on the Revolution in France.
- Despite the reality of unequal status and wealth, humans are
interdependent.
12. - The central theme of conservation is to conserve. It rejects change to
protect tradition and practice's in politics and in society.
- It has institutions tested by time and wisdom from past generations.
- Tradition also promotes security and stability, and gives a sense of
belongingness through historical backgrounds.
- We have to see ourselves as involved in a partnership not only
between those who are living, but between those who are living, those
who are dead, and those who are to be born.
- Simplest or most abstract form, the conservative in inclined to hold
onto what he has rather than seek what he does not have.
13. - Michael Oakeshott (1991) said that conservatism, understood as a
‘disposition’, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, the actual to the
possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the
convenient to the perfect’.
- Conservatives argue that there is no obligation to change the world
because human imperfection, on the on e hand, and unforeseen
consequence, on the other, make it impossible to know that any
change will be for the better.(Stove, 2003).
14. Democracy
- Philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato viewed it has a way
for the commonalty to rule while sacrificing wisdom and
property .
- Democracy in the 19th century as seen as a form of “mob
rob” but a “Socialism” began to collapse and people started
to see the obscurities in Capitalism during the 20th century,
Democracy continued to gain popularity and rose a strong
principle among them.
- The term Democracy originated from Ancient Greece.
- Derived from “kratos” meaning power and “demos” meaning
the poor or many, the word translate into “ rule by the
many”.
15. - This is quite vague and this makes it very famous that it places the
term’s status as an important political ideology in peril.
- Being generalized as something that will surely benefit the people,
democracy has now been used inordinately to justify another beliefs
as “ politically correct”.
- Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of
public affairs.
- One of which is that Democracy is a system of rule by the poor and
underprivileged.
- Form of government in which the people rule themselves without the
need from public officials or representatives.
16. - Seen as a society based on equal opportunity and individual merit
instead of social ranking.
- Democracy is also a system aimed at eliminating social injustice.
- All of the definitions stated seem to be from Anarchism, Socialism,
Liberalism, and other ideologies but a more straightforward
definition was given by Abraham Lincoln on his Gettysburg Address:
“ A government of the people , by the people, for the people”.
- According to Lincoln, Democracy is a system composed of the
people who established it.
17. - The people who established this govern themselves by participating
in essential decision-making.
- This may be done in two ways and the first is through popular
participation through referendums which were once used in Athens,
mass- meetings, and even interactive television.
18. Liberalism
- Mistake of subjecting to human judgements those revealed
doctrines which are in their nature beyond or independent of
it, and of claiming to determined on intrinsic grounds the truth
and value of propositions which rest for their reception simply
on the existing authority of the Devine Word (Newman, 1890,
p. 288).
- Best way to express this is to say that the liberal always
divides the world into three: into what is intrinsically necessary
(the self), what is necessary to support that intrinsic necessity
(a system of standards, rules, laws), and what is contingent
(everything else, including all other beliefs, practices and
institution's).
19. - Although Kant was nothing as simple as liberal, his writings clearly
state the liberal view of law.
- He makes it clear thet6 an order food is founded upon three
principles, firstly, the principle of freedom for all members of a
society (as man); secondly, the principle of the dependence of
everyone upon a single common legislation (as subject); and thirdly,
the principle of legal equality for everyone (as citizens).