Ideology

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

What is it?

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

What is it?

How observations are conceptualized by the individual. Ideology serves as the superstructure of society, for example the rich observe their benefit at the hand of capitalism create ideological categories based on their experience that capitalism is "good" while those who suffer under capitalism experience capitalism negatively and therefore make ideological categories under the basic assumption that capitalism is "bad".

[Let's Get Free]

The word pretty much says it. It's your ideas. The ideas that guide your wants and needs. Simply put, it is the way you look at things in relationship to the world.

[Astarte]

To add to the above posts, ideology is also a set of ideas that can be based on political, national, religious, etc notions. These ideals are usually fixed thought-sets that individuals, groups, or societies consciously identify themselves as being a part of or collectively embody. Being a part of "Ideology X" usually entails greater insight into "problem Y" than "Ideology N" and therefore gives "Ideology X" a sense of innate superiority. Ideology can be, but is not necessarily associated with class. Ideology functions on a level that is independent of truth and fallacy.

[Ostrinski]

false consciousness

[Marxaveli]

false consciousness

Usually, but not always. After all, communism is an ideology.

Ideologies are a worldview that consist of ones politics, ethics, culture, value system, and so on, but more importantly, it is also a representation of a person or group of persons class interests. Liberalism is the ideological embodiment that represents the interests of the capitalist class, communism the same for the working class. False consciousness occurs of course, when working class people adopt liberalism as their ideology.

[blake 3:17]

The most common sense of the word is a deliberate commitment to a social or political goal.

The best book on the subject is Terry Eagleton's Ideology: An Introduction.