What were the major ideologies of
the 19th century and how did they influence social and political
action? Ideologies are recognized as systems of ideas and that form the basics
of economic and political theory. To answer this question in class we split into
six groups and everyone did a 60 second presentation on their ideologies. There
were only three ideologies so there were two groups per each ideology. Once the
presentations were prepared the two groups that had he same ideology faced off
against each other and the class voted on the better one.
Our presentation helped define our
ideology by showing points of view from several different social classes. We
had a middle class male, an aristocrat, a liberal leader, and a poor man. Each
person had a different view on liberalism. Liberalism influenced political action
because liberals pushed for a constitutional monarchy over absolutism.
Socially, liberalism influenced the middle class male because liberals believed
that the middle class deserved more power in politics so it wasn’t just
all-aristocratic points of view. Liberals felt that there was god given rights
in every person and people could show them using reason. Liberals felt that
traditions were mostly had no facts to back them up.
Conservatism was very different
from liberalism. In conservatism tradition is vitally important because these
people felt that tradition was proven over time to be successful. Conservatives
pushed for a monarchy, and wanted mainly aristocrats in power. Conservatives
felt that reform and revolution led to serious problems. Nationalists believed
that a nation was an important place where everyone had shared interests and
characteristics. For example language and heritage are some characteristics
that bonded people together. Nationalists did not like when borders were interfered with.
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