Worldview and Ideology
Worldview and Ideology
Tigranyan Gnel,
Tigranyan Nune
Summary
Key words: worldview, ideology, worldview, public consciousness, values, political ideology
Human cognition of reality is not limited to passive contemplation. Practical cognition is systematized theoretically, forming a certain worldview. It is a set of collective ideas of a particular social group about reality, about the place and role of man in it. If a worldview acquires public resonance, it can develop into an ideology, including a system of governance, and be realized as a political ideology. A worldview is a multi-layered ideology. A person’s worldview is formed throughout life, by one’s experience, literature, and society. A worldview encompasses not only the legal and political superstructure, but also regulates individual human behavior, theoretically substantiates acceptable norms of human relations, and imposes tolerance in public life. Having emerged from a worldview, an ideology retrospectively transforms it, adapting it to the dictates and demands of the time. Not all worldviews become ideologies; only those worldview models claim the role of ideology that affect a large number of people and are capable of guiding them. Thus, a worldview is an ideology, a philosophically substantiated theory, a system of ideas that expresses the interests and aspirations of significant social groups.