POLITICS POCKET DICTIONARY I

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Ideology :
1. As a system of ideas or beliefs that guide political action.

2. the common sense of society – ideology as world view (according to Gramsci)
3. an articulation of the struggle against the status quo – ideology as an instrument of liberation (according to Gramsci)
4. A comprehensive and coherent set of basic beliefs about political, economic, social and cultural affairs that is held in common by a sizable group of people within a society. Such interrelated ideas and teachings purport both to explain how political, economic, social and cultural institutions really do work and also to prescribe how such institutions ought ideally to operate.

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