Ideology vs Ism - What's the difference?
ideology | ism |
Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
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The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
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English words suffixed with -ology
An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
* 1965 , , Marxism, One Hundred Years in the Life of a Doctrine , p. 357,
* 1969 , Walter E. Minchinton, Mercantilism; System Or Expediency? , p. xi,
* 1986 , (Matthew Broderick) (as Ferris Bueller), :
* 1994 , Kenneth Kaye, Workplace Wars and How to End Them , p. 70,
Specifically , a form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism.
As nouns the difference between ideology and ism
is that ideology is doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group while ism is an ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.As an abbreviation ISM is
abbreviation of w:Imperial Service Order|Imperial Service Medal|lang=en.ideology
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(wikipedia ideology)Noun
(ideologies)Usage notes
Original meaning “study of ideas” (following the etymology), today primarily used to mean “doctrine”. For example “communist ideology” generally refers to “communist doctrine”; study of communist ideas instead being “communist philosophy”, or more clearly “philosophy of communism”; only rarely “ideology of communism”.References
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(en noun)- […] his religion, his worship was like his daily bread to him; — which he did not take the trouble to talk much about; which he merely ate at stated intervals, and lived and did his work upon! This is ’s Catholicism of the Twelfth Century; — something like the Ism''''' of all true men in all true centuries, I fancy! Alas, compared with any of the '''''Isms current in these poor days, what a thing!
- An ism does not have to possess the fearful implements of state power to cut off a a deviant or heretical member.
- In his exposition, he has failed to achieve the identification of situation, theory, and policy necessary to create an ism .
- Isms' in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ' ism – he should believe in himself.
- It is important to distinguish between an ism' and a mere generalization about group differences. Generalizations that have statistical validity are not '''isms'''. An ' ism assumes that the generalization applies to an individual.
