Who are the scholars associated with this brand of ideology?
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An ideology is a set of normative beliefs and values that a person or other entity[disambiguation needed] has for non-epistemic reasons. These rely on basic assumptions about reality that may or may not have any factual basis. The term is especially used to describe systems of ideas and ideals which form the basis of economic or political theories and resultant policies. In these there are tenuous causal links between policies and outcomes owing to the large numbers of variables available, so that many key assumptions have to be made. In political science the term is used in a descriptive sense to refer to political belief systems.
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" during the French Reign of Terror by trying to develop a rational system of ideas to oppose the irrational impulses of the mob. However, in contemporary philosophy it is narrower in scope than that original concept, or the ideas expressed in broad concepts such as worldview, The Imaginary and in ontology.
In the sense defined by French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, ideology is "the imagined existence (or idea) of things as it relates to the real conditions of existence".
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Ideology is the system of the ideas which function within a given society to make its customs, beliefs, institution, and practices appear Natural and Simple.
It is an organized collective set of ideas that was first coined by Antoine DE Tracy in the 18 century to define ideas and science.
An ideology can be a set of ideas formulated by the dominating social class of society which is followed by the other members of the society.