Ideology is an essential factor determining how people make decisions and pass their ideas, ideology, beliefs, and practices necessary to them. At the individual level, a person aims at learning and adopt particular beliefs and principles for a variety of personal, social, and cultural reasons. It includes their desire for self-improvement for a better living, needs to have awareness about their identities in terms of values, practices, and cultural norms. Moreover, learning about ideology helps people to justify their decision-making. Consequently, the desire of individuals to associate with or belong to a group exhibit a commitment to sharing and passing on different ideologies to others. While the collective motivation to share an ideology worldwide involves sharing beliefs, values, and practices with a broader audience found in different social and global settings. Sharing and learning with the worldwide community sustain the traditions of transmitting knowledge, memories, and ideas of issues or events to various groups from one generation to another.
How are Ideologies shared?
Ideological transmission and learning is a cultural process that involves parents and children, peer groups, religious and political organizations, and online networks to have face-to-face interactions. The cultural process of ideological transmission enables people of different social settings, workplaces, clubs, and peer groups to collaborate and internalize different cultures, traditions, and ideologies. Moreover, cooperating and training of groups allows them to respond to innovation that involves an ideological and technological change in personal lives, group beliefs, and rituals.
In extremist settings, ideological transmission and learning processes experiment with a new identity and worldview. It involves group cohesion, intergenerational transmission, and peer sharing by using new techniques, practices, and ideas to increase learning. The cultural sharing process breaks down the complex process of ideological learning by asking straightforward, familiar questions such as why individuals, groups, or networks value and share ideologies? What ideas, beliefs, and values are transmitted to various groups, how do individuals and groups mutually share ideas and traditions, and how do their roles and connections help in the global transmission of cultures and values? Moreover, the groups benefit from critical feedback and encouragement; consequently, it prepares members to carry out activities and debates to achieve their objectives.
Ideology builds Resilience
The ideology framework identifies violent actors and predicts future violent attacks. It also offers new perspectives about the extremist beliefs and practices, how they are transmitted and learned, when and how they can be changed. The ideology ponders over the cultural and social factors that influence and reinforce violence. To control extremism and aggression, ideology helps reconnect ideas and behavior and seek help from individuals and groups to express non-conflicting values and ideas. Ideology helps in the identification of violent beliefs, and potential modes of attack, and targets.
Consequently, the world states have taken measures to counter radicalization and extremist ideology. A new strategy involves building Resilience to curb extremism’s corrosive ideology. Building resilience helps counter extremist propaganda and actively supports universal and local values, creating a strong, positive sense of local and national identity. The resilience approach promotes democracy and personal freedom. Resilience-building as a collective responsibility will help vulnerable communities to make meaningful choices and values that refute extremist ideas and promote peace. Hence, resilience-building efforts provide greater collaboration, diversity, and inclusion in the global community.
Ideology leads to self-fulfillment and spiritual growth.
Both religion and ideologies are systems of beliefs and faith that help understand the meaning of life and how an individual can build a strong relationship with the higher power. Religious values and ideologies help us seek the questions of truth and reality; they imply a cosmology about what the world is, how it works, the purpose of our existence, and how we can live a meaningful life. A religious ideology secular tools provide citizens the freedom to choose and practice their faith and religion. The civil codes teach compassion, forgiveness, and gratitude, create a sense of belonging to a group, and safe social engagement. Thus, religious ideology positively influences mental and emotional wellbeing.
Conclusion
Ideology influences the choice of the goals and objectives of individuals and groups. Ideology comprises a body of ideas concerning economic, social, and political values and ideals that speculate action to attain these goals. Ideology involves learning and passing on ideas, beliefs, and practices to people belonging to different sections of society. It helps to understand how extremist political and religious groups receive and internalize various cultures and values.
To further know about human identity, read the book, Religious Freedom Forever By Andy Swarna. Andy is an out-of-the-box thinker. He identifies himself as a self-learner. He is always concerned about resolving issues that people face in their daily lives. The author’s journey in politics, faith, and conflict resolution has revealed a historical fact and a universal truth that sums up the whole creation in a thought. The natural truth helps us envision our perceptions, allowing us to understand the power of honest thinking. To turn your ideas into reality, whether in the form of a resolution, law, or principle, it has to go through a specific process. This process contains knowledge from different thinkers, philosophers, ideologists, and historians. As suggested by thinkers and ideologists, using knowledge and the universal truth helps to reach one’s goals in faith and politics. Andy’s work has enabled him to devise a plan, a purpose, and being universal human is a solution to all human problems.
Reading the book lets us know that every individual’s life has multiple facets that depict their identity, thoughts, beliefs, and behavior. This implies that human identity can be exercised in every life, such as solving relationship and identity-related issues. Human identity and ideology establish values that bring self-improvement and personal growth, Resilience, and individual and collective decisions and actions. Moreover, ideology helps to reconnect ideas and behavior and helps individuals and groups avoid extremism and violence. Learn tolerance, compassion, and gratitude. Hence, they live out their ideologies by practicing peace and solidarity in every section of society.