- to me ideology is a shared perspective of beliefs, values, and ideas that can shape how a group of people see the world or decide what is wrong and right. It will shape the minds into seeing how they understand and process things through their perspective especially in society. And sometimes this can even happen without us even realizing it in our everyday lives. An example can be The American Dream. The belief is that anyone can achieve financial success and happiness if they just work hard enough. If you see someone financially stable you would say it is because they work hard and have talent or skills in their field. But if someone was financially struggling you would think it is the opposite for them. That they are not driven or working as hard enough or else they would be living this happy stable life. But to have a deeper understanding in Ideology is to see that they are already in our schools, media, religions, etc.. Ideologies are constantly competing against each other. We have the main ideology that keeps everything together, but then also have new ideas that also rise up to challenge it when people don’t think systems are fair. In the end ideology is the system that “holds everything together” but then also allows other to use it as a tool when trying to change it.
2. The main reason diving the Liberals and bConservatives is how they see the government. Liberals believe the government should be more involved to solve social problems, protect the government, and make sure that everyone is treated equally. Conservatives on the other Hand want something very different. They want the government to mind their business and stay out of private business and daily lives so that people can rely on their personal responsibilities. Healthcare is such a great example because it shows how liberals think it should be provided to everyone equally while conservatives think it should be handled privately.
3. Althusser argue that ideology isn’t a collection of bad ideas but an imaginary story we tell ourselves to fit into our world perspective. Because the complex reality and society rules can be too harsh so we use this “story” to make ourselves feel independent and practice it through ordinary habits taught to us by almost anything growing up.
