Ideology is how someone sees themselves, others, and systems in society. Ideology shapes the thinking of how someone reacts to or supports these systems. It gives a basic outline of how society is as a whole and how we see the world around us, based off our own thinking, appeases, and cultural background.
In example, people of hispanic or black cultures are seen as poor, lazy and deserving of that from a conservative standpoint, but from a liberal standpoint, these cultures are seen as hard-workers making do with what they were given. This is a thought process of each social class.
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I understand ideology to be a type of categorization to a certain class of people and how they contribute to society as well as how they interact within these systems of the law and within each group. I also understand ideology to influence background, the type of neighborhoods people live in, and the access or lack thereof for one as opposed to the other in regards to services and assistance. I also believe it is a broader spectrum from the social norm of race as anyone can have a conservative or liberal point of view, based on how they were influenced, growing up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In US politics, conservative and liberal ideology are different in the aspect of what views they stand for. In example, a conservative would be more prone to a smaller government because they believe that they shouldn’t have to pay taxes to help the poor, where as someone with a liberal standpoint would agree with more assistance from the government to support their lifestyle. Also the viewpoints of the police and law enforcement, would show an equal difference between both parties because a liberal would be anti-police due to the majority being targeted by police because of their race or culture, as opposed to liberals who are less targeted by the police because of the environment\/neighborhood they may or many not live in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I understand Althusser’s definition of ideology because when we are in school we are institutionalized to be obedient or we will get detention or time out. As we get older the same principal applies, of conditioning us to know that bad behavior doesn’t get rewarded, but instead of detention, it’s jail or worse. His idea of ideology makes me understand everything we was taught conditioned us to be “model members of society.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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