Ideology is a collection of beliefs, values, a system of ideas and ideals which forms the basis of a theory or policy. Sometimes, ideology refers to a group of political beliefs or a set of ideas that characterize a popular culture or group of people. Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, and Marxism are some common example of ideologies. Ideology always emerges among the supressed class of the society. French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, defines that ideology is
“The imagined existence (or idea) of things as it relates to the real conditions of existence”
Ideology emerges with some common comments and thing among the group of people, here are few of them:
Common language plays an important role in evolving. People have same language could be agreed upon and ideology, if they they found that their language is in danger or being ignored.
Common identity like: nationality, cast, region etc can also cause an ideology to emerge to support their unique identity.
Religion perhaps the most important thing in the emergence of an ideology. Common religion among people is source of uniting people and keeping people think together.
Existence of common ideology among a group of people may also be the source of emergence of a new ideology having roots from the previous ideology.
Sources of Ideology
There are always some sources of ideology to evolve.
Without the leader, there is no movement. Often leaders defines the way for a nation to lead and grow and more often leaders gave ideologies to their nations.
When a group of people is hatered having common things like mentioned above can rise an ideology to protect their common thing.
The less satisfaction form ourselves can cause an ideology to be like other. The more we mistrust and judge ourselves the more likely we may follow others.
People forcibly converted to other religion, identity or languages causes and new ideology to evolve.