Western Modern Ideologies and History of Industrialization and Colonization

According to Heywood (2007), “An ideology is a more or less coherent set of ideas that provides the basis for organized political action, whether this is intended to preserve, modify or overthrow the existing system of power” (pp. 11-12). All ideologies therefore have the following features:

1) They off er an account of the existing order, usually in the form of a world view.