Ideology 1

Question 1

Ideology: Family and family values

Answer 1

• Ideally children should grow up with two married heterosexual parents and one or two brothers and sisters.
• Marriage is the ideal kind of relationship.
• Sex outside of marriage is a bad thing particularly when it is casual.

Question 2

Ideology: materialism/consumerism

Answer 2

• Buying things and having lots of money are ways to achieve happiness.

Question 3

Ideology: work ethic

Answer 3

• Hard work is not just a way of becoming successful, but is a good thing in itself.
• Those who choose not to work hard should be looked down on – “work-shy
layabouts”

Question 4

Ideology: self determination

Answer 4

• People should not rely on anyone else or society to help them through life, they should achieve things for themselves.
• It is quite possible for anyone to be successful if they are willing to try.

Question 5

Ideology: deference

Answer 5

• We should have respect for those who are in authority over us.

Question 6

Ideology: sexual difference

Answer 6

• Women and men have very different abilities in almost everything they do.
• In general the abilities of men are greater when it really matters.

Question 7

Ideology

Answer 7

An ideology is a set of ideas and values that directs one’s goals, expectations and actions.
It can be thought of as a comprehensive vision; a way of looking at things. Every society has a dominant ideology that is shared unthinkingly by the majority of those people.