How Ideology Changes Over Time

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Today the term ideology is used in a much broader sense. According to Cole (2017), “ideology can be described as a set of conscious and unconscious ideas which make up ones’ beliefs, goals, expectations, and motivations” (p.4). Ideology changes over time and has the ability and flexibility to adapt to the changing circumstance within the environment. Everything contributes to ideology changing over time, including changes in historical events, society, technology, ideas, economic development, and growth etc. Ideology is a comprehensive vision. Ideology plays a huge role as a function within society. To better understand how things affect one another you have to look at the ideology of that society. Each society has different ideologies,

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