id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4009 Ideology - Wikipedia .html text/html 7163 1178 54 An ideology (/ˌʌɪdɪˈɒlədʒi/) is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially as held for reasons that are not purely epistemic,[1][2] in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones."[3] Formerly applied primarily to economic, political, or religious theories and policies, in a tradition going back to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, more recent use treats the term as mainly condemnatory.[4] There are many different kinds of ideologies, including political, social, epistemological, and ethical. In social studies, a political ideology is a certain ethical set of ideals, principles, doctrines, myths, or symbols of a social movement, institution, class, or large group that explains how society should work, offering some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4009.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4009.txt