Themes of Ideology

Question 1

Nation

Answer 1

A recognized country or a group of people that sees itself as a nation because it has a common culture, history, heroes, language, customs and goals
Concerned with sovereignty, self-preservation, its own identity, citizenship and rights of its citizens
Example: German Nazis - rebirth of their nation based on racial purity and strength

Question 2

Religion

Answer 2

Pertaints to ethics and morality
Religious beliefs answer questions about human nature, the way the world is and the way world should be

Question 3

Social Class

Answer 3

Way of society is structure, usually based on occupation or amount of money people have (working class, middle class, upper class)
Example: Communism - working class will rise against the upper class so that all classes are removed and people are equal

Question 4

Relationship to the land and Environment

Answer 4

Both philosophically and practicing
Example: Aboriginal peoples (inter-relationship with the earth’s resource)
Environmentalism (worry we are using up recourses and damaging the environment)