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Are We Living in a Post - Ideological Society? Jessica Cohen 200 - 046 - 447 Are we Living in a 'Post - Ideological Society'? Ideology sprang out of the upheavals - economic, social and political - through which the modern world took shape, and has been intimately involved in the continuing process of social transformation and political development1. In general, they aim to provide and defend a particular social order. Traditionally ideologies have been categorised in terms of a 'political spectrum'. Ideologies range from left wing to right wing - an idea that hails from seating arrangements in parliament during the French revolution. They range from communism on the extreme left, to liberalism in the centre and fascism at the far right. However, this linear spectrum has come under attack from those who say it portrays politics as one-dimensional and oversimplifies the complexity and fluidity of ideologies. Many other representations have been attempted,...

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