Keeping in mind the material covered in this lesson, describe how you understand ideology in YOUR OWN WORDS.
Hint: One way to approach this is as follows
a) Describe what ideology is in a brief paragraph (in your own words).
b) Give an example illustrating what you wrote in (a).
c) Write another paragraph (or two), explaining to your reader with additional details, how you understand ideology.

1- According to me ideology is a set of rules and beliefs of a group of people. It is a some ideas that a group or individual is based on. It forms the operating principles for a society. These people believe in these ideas without even questioning why they exist. An example is the Democracy Ideology, which consist in, the government of a country has to be elected by the masses. In order words in the government is elected by popular vote, it has the mandate and consent to lead under its policies until another election. Most country in the world shared the ideology of democratic regime for governance.

Ideology is a group of principles of certain political, social and cultural beliefs of parties. Most people subscribe to multiple ideologies. For example a person who follow a particular religion and a political party such as Catholicism and Republicans, has straight beliefs tie to these two ideologies. As a catholic this person will believe that the main motive for ethical behavior is to love God. They believe in the trinity and virgin Mary. A person affiliated to Republican ideology would support traditional values, no abortion and no gay marriage.

2- How do you understand the difference between conservative and liberal ideology in US politics? What seem to be the big differences, the dividing line? Given an example to backup your arguments.
Hint: try to identify key words (concepts) that play a big role in making someone consider themselves to be liberal or conservative. Then, explain in your own words what those keywords (concepts) mean

2- I understand the conservatives and liberals are used to describe political affiliations in the US society. In addition, democrats are often viewed as liberals and republicans are often viewed as conservatives. Conservatives are partisans of free market, Liberty, capitalism, big business defense. In other words, conservatives think that most service should be provided by the private sector in a free market, there must be less regulation. Also big business or higher income entities should have incentive instead of been taxed to invest more. However, liberals believe in equality, social groups, controlled economy, self interest. They think that the government should provide the services such as free universal health care to all citizens to challenge private health care companies, on top of that high income earners should pay a good part of their income as taxes.

3. How do you understand Althusser’s definition of ideology? Paraphrase it in your own words. Given an example. Hint: you may have to watch the second video again, and find the few places where Althusser’s position is presented.

3- Per the video, Althusser’s definition of Ideology is that Ideology is a system and structure imposed by the ruling group such as government, schools, judiciary institution to control a society in their own interest. They use sometimes violent and non violent method to do so. It causes people to believe that they have control over their lives while in fact, they don’t. According to Althusser’s, people do not act in their own interest but they they are not even conscious of it. People tend to believe being normal means to be part of a group, and/or share same beliefs with a group without been conscious it is not the best choice because none of them are in our interest. People are distracted by entertainments, social media to not been conscious of their situation and not doing anything to change it. An example is that school is labeled as a place to learn how to read, write and also a necessity. But school is similarly a tool to teach people to be disciplined and obey. People think they are free, when actually their freedom is controlled and restricted by force.