IDEOLOGIES

systematic schemes of ideas, usually relating to politics or society or to the conduct of a class or group, and regarded a s justifying actions, especially those that are held implicitly or adopted as a whole and maintained regardless of the course of events. —DMSMH Glossary (app. 14.7.90)

systematic schemes of ideas, usually relating to politics or society or to the conduct of a class or group, and regarded as justifying actions, especially those that are held implicitly or adopted as a whole and maintained regardless of the course of events.