Ideologies are a collection of beliefs and ethical values that people and all state apparatuses hold true to themselves. For the most part, ideologies heavily affect and impact our modern society and world as we know it. This is because Ideologies are passed down from generation to generation and from state apparatuses to us as people. There are many different reasons as to why people hold different Ideologies.

For instance, some people simply just choose to believe in what was passed down from their older generation of family and relatives or their most convenient state apparatus. On the other hand, others choose to completely challenge the beliefs and ideas passed from those around them for many different reasons. Furthermore, in order to further illustrate ideology itself, an example of an ideology passed down from the state apparatuses being school is that we as a society should obey a certain bell schedule and time schedule for our education system and typical work day as future employees.

Another way to understand ideology through example would be how different government parties have different ideologies. For this example, I’m going to use the conservative and liberal parties by comparing their extremely different ideologies. First of all, the primary conservative ideology concepts are favoring traditional values and capitalism. However, the liberal parties’ main ideologies favor values such as equality and liberty. Last but not least, the last way to further your knowledge of ideology would be through Althusser’s concept of ideology. This concept essentially states that because of the passing of ideologies through all different sorts of apparatuses and generational passing of ideas, it helps keep society in place and a certain general standpoint with certain main ideologies and concepts that run modern society.