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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ideological
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
religious/political/ideological etc dogma
▪ the rejection of political dogma
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assumption
▪ Here again it is a matter of ideological assumptions and the unit of study.
basis
▪ Ethnic conflict is not explained by competition for limited resources; it seems to have an ideological basis.
▪ It is important to note that the above interpretation of the ideological basis of Marxism and functionalism is debatable.
battle
▪ The film also brings to light the fascinating ideological battles that took place within the party.
▪ Inpart, this decline has been effected by the successful ideological battle waged against them by Mrs Thatcher.
commitment
▪ It has implied that where ideological commitments are involved a distinction may be made between relatively easy gestures and hard administrative battles.
conflict
▪ It has all the cut and thrust of an ideological conflict.
▪ Such ideological conflicts overlap traditional party lines and erode traditional party loyalties.
▪ In the 1630s, in particular, he presided over a fractious chapter, divided by personal and some ideological conflict.
▪ There are pitfalls and temptations and ideological conflicts.
difference
▪ No serious ideological differences distinguish Fianna Fail, by far the stronger, from Fine Gael.
▪ Can it avoid self-destruction caused by the strong ideological differences among its moderate and its more radical factions?
▪ His party is riven by personal and ideological differences and is under fire because of allegations of corruption.
▪ Unstable cabinet systems have been prevalent where stronger ideological differences and multiple political parties have emerged in contemporary legislatures.
▪ It is now clear that Woodhead's ideological differences with the Government run far deeper than anyone imagined.
▪ President Clinton, meanwhile, said there remained ideological differences between the two groups.
▪ In an election otherwise relatively free of ideological difference, education starkly divides the parties.
division
▪ The ideological divisions evident among people with disabilities are exploited to the full by policy-makers.
▪ Its manner has exposed the procedural inexperience of the first full-time Soviet legislature and the ideological divisions of its 542 members.
▪ Indeed, it became increasingly torn apart by sectarian and ideological division.
enemy
▪ But even his ideological enemies sneakingly admire his unabashed aggression, a quality rare in a city of trimmers and dissemblers.
form
▪ But the system and rigour is the product of the peculiar institutional and ideological form that science takes.
function
▪ In becoming routinized, however, roles and relationships carry an essential ideological function in the fact that what exists remains unquestioned.
▪ Success of the literary process becomes a measure of the balance achieved between artistic techniques and ideological functions.
▪ In so doing they legitimated and endorsed the statusquo, and fulfilled an ideological function of agent of disguised social control.
▪ But this epistemology itself is parasitic upon other practices, which serve the same ideological function.
level
▪ The chief obstacles to Ecotopia lie in the economic, political, cultural and ideological levels.
▪ These are at the individual level, at the institutional level and, unfortunately, at the ideological level.
position
▪ However, the ideological position is not an empty one.
▪ Some of the critics want to foist their narrow ideological positions on him.
▪ They argue that the various theories of society are based, at least inpart, on value judgments and ideological positions.
▪ An unholy alliance with other minorities to preserve ideological positions otherwise unacceptable to the electorate does not appeal as a noble enterprise.
▪ He had been reading Lenin's Imperialism: The highest stage of capitalism, and his ideological position had hardened.
practice
▪ Now, Althusser consigns state apparatuses to political practice, and ideological state apparatuses to ideological practice.
▪ We have seen that Althusser invokes certain aspects of political and ideological practice to explain the reproduction of the relations of production.
▪ And yet there is no special ideological practice which gives us the idea of it.
purity
▪ In 1970, Mr Pozsgay joined the Agitprop department - the party's watchdog on ideological purity and the media.
▪ S.-Soviet Cold War, symbols of ideological purity turned brittle.
▪ Their measures of success are not ideological purity but profitability within their chosen sectors.
▪ Neither of the superpowers has had much interest in ideological purity.
▪ The overriding priority, therefore, was to ensure that the structure of the Party should guarantee its ideological purity.
▪ Once elected, the pressure group spokesman becomes a politician, whose business is compromise, not ideological purity.
▪ Or it could preserve its ideological purity and risk losing the elections.
▪ He expressed himself in favour of ideological purity, strictly in accordance with Marx, Engels, and Lenin, and for purging members who deviate.
reason
▪ There were thus political and ideological reasons for promoting this student tide, not just economic ones.
▪ Franco was well aware of this, in spite of the imposition of autarchic principles for ideological reasons.
▪ The Labour Party, riven by schism and self-doubt, seemed in long-term, inexorable decline, for sociological as well as ideological reasons.
structure
▪ An analysis and cross-cultural comparison of such circumstances would involve study of political and ideological structures rather than technologies.
▪ Neither does this deny the possibility that local community can indeed be an ideological structure in itself.
▪ The explanation is better sought in the specific social and material circumstances and their articulation with political and ideological structures.
struggle
▪ Ex-combatants of an ideological struggle that had simply faded away.
▪ It is necessary to wage a firm ideological struggle against this revisionist current. 6.
▪ Another appointee might have seen the ideological struggle about money for the arts as politics-as-usual.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The two Communist powers split over ideological differences in the late 1950s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both men are staunch conservatives, but of the two Lott is the more ideological and aggressive.
▪ Evidently the attainment of an ordered world consonant with divine laws remained the ideological framework of antislavery.
▪ His ideological step has lost its bounce.
▪ However, the ideological meaning of this rhetoric is not necessarily clear.
▪ Many coed schools provide excellent educations, but the reasons for the movement seem to be less academic than financial and ideological.
▪ Shades of religious or ideological belief mean that a rhetorical justification is always to hand.
▪ The chief obstacles to Ecotopia lie in the economic, political, cultural and ideological levels.
▪ Whatever their other differences, good middle-class reformers would not countenance such ideological backsliding or remain passive before fashionable aristocratic interventions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ideological

ideologic \ideologic\, ideological \ideological\adj. concerned with or suggestive of ideas; as, an ideologic argument.

Syn: ideological.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ideological

1797, from ideology + -ical. Related: Ideologically.

Wiktionary
ideological

a. 1 Of or pertaining to an ideology. 2 Based on an ideology or misleading studies or statistics, especially based on the media or propaganda. Not based on scientific evidence or reality.

WordNet
ideological

adj. concerned with or suggestive of ideas; "an ideological argument"; "ideological application of a theory"; "the drama's symbolism was very ideological" [syn: ideologic]

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Usage examples of "ideological".

The absolutist nature of the American Creed, with its ideological faith in Democracy and Freedom, tends to produce etherized, contentless versions of both these concepts.

Even though the agrarian roots of the conflict were recognized, the ideological viewpoint that categorized the Huks as communists dominated practical policy.

From religious contrasts arise the thought-categories of believer and non-believer, from economics those of co-worker and competitor, from ideological those of agreer and disagreer.

So instead of producing the authoritarian institutions that were the inevitable outcome of the ferocious power struggles and ideological confusions characteristic of social evolution on Earth, Jevlenese society developed as a kind of patronized anarchy, secure in the guarantee of unlimited goods and products indefinitely, and the total absence of threats.

Bill Ayers would have blended right in with all the other ideological stuff that had been appearing regularly in the New York Times.

It was so important that for the first and last time Dostoyevsky made a formal dichotomy between the ideological briefing, which even contains dialogue, and the novella which illustrates it.

The Green Peril thesis is now being used to explain diverse and unrelated events in that region, with Tehran replacing Moscow as the center of ideological subversion and military expansionism and Islam substituting for the spiritual energy of communism.

Roman law was the best available ideological weapon with which to confront papal hierocratic doctrine, this system became the natural concern of laymen involved in generating an embryonic political theory to refute the claims of papal governmental thought.

It meant that the danger which Jorn the Apostle would have to be made to suspect would have to be as much ideological as it was military.

Antonin Scalia is certainly the most ideological and opinionated justice on the Court today.

Several of the distinguished members of the committee that produced this report had been purged from university positions during the war for their avowedly leftist sympathies, and all of them were acutely sensitive to the great ideological as well as technocratic and technological trends of the time.

When in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the concept of nation was taken up in very different ideological contexts and led popular mobilizations in regions and countries within and outside Europe that had experienced neither the liberal revolution nor the same level of primitive accumulation, it still always was presented as a concept of capitalist modernization, which claimed to bring together the interclass demands for political unity and the needs of economic development.

If, as seems fairly straightforward, a woman can unconsciously contribute to patriarchal institutions and act in accordance with ideologies rooted in misogyny, it stands to reason that a male writer might challenge sexist ideas without setting out on an ideological crusade to do so.

Timbuk 3, it is commonly accepted that, within the ideological and semiological constraints imposed by our cultural communities, the way we choose to look says something about who we want to be.

The political and ideological dynamics of the situation, however, were too complex to be explained away by such simplistic notions of mass psychology.