Ideology

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, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones." 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.The term was coined by Antoine Destutt de Tracy, a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher, who conceived it in 1796 as the "science of ideas" to develop a rational system of ideas …

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Laws.Africa · 16 May 2022 English

performed with the intention of furthering an ideology, whether political, religious, racial, or ethnic


Laws.Africa · 10 September 2021 English

membership. _ (a) Popularize the policies, ideology and philosophy of the Party amongst youths in executive shall be to popularize the policies, ideology and philosophy of the Party amongst students


Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2021 English

HALF the size of New York cemetery and twice as dead: this much-quoted, wry comment is generally attributed to the satirical writer Tom Sharpe who worked in Pietermarizburg in the …

entirely on national legislation derived from the ideology of the National Party (NP). From 1948 onwards these were optional. The Act was based on the ideology of Stallardism: the place of Africans in urban


Laws.Africa · 31 December 2020 English

territories is a factor to be considered. The apartheid ideology meant that the areas where the black majority


Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2020 English

This history of one of the earliest nineteenth-century mission stations in Natal traces the transformation in the lives of a community that settled first at Indaleni near Richmond and later …

south africa had become a society dominated by the ideology and practice of segregation and racial exclusivism colonial patterns of land usage as well. The ideology and practices of the missionaries was one form conviction was the result of the growth of religious ideology in the previous two centuries, with its roots that mission ideology and practices can be subsumed as aspects of capitalist ideology and practice the relationship between mission and capitalist ideology, and misses crucial areas of conflict between


Laws.Africa · 1 November 2016 English

radicalizing and propagating Al- Qaida's (QDe.004) ideology through the Internet. Incites violent activities


Laws.Africa · 24 June 2016 English

population was considered a major threat to the ideology of white supremacy. At the end of the First World


Laws.Africa · 15 April 2016 English

differences in organisational structure, culture, ideology and ranking which needed to be accommodated within


Laws.Africa · 31 March 2016 English

political order, aesthetical beauty, and ideology of the new dispensation. And owing to


Laws.Africa · 11 February 2016 English

consumption and the cult of consumption, or consumerist ideology, is the major cause of economic growth. Overdevelopment


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