Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

political ideologies  

Definition

  • Ideologies are systems of ideas that shape people's thoughts and actions with regard to many things, including nationality, race, the role and function of government, property and class divisions, the relations between men and women, human responsibility for the natural environment, and more. These systems of ideas have proven to be potent, and often lethal, political forces. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Ideologies, Political]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/political_ideologies

Download this concept: