Ideologies Influences on Political and Social Issues

Hello readers,

The last week we learned about political ideologies of the 19th century and how they influenced social and political actions. To learn about this though we first had to understand what we were trying to learn about. We first had to define what an ideology was to understand what the question was. An ideology is a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theories and policies. It can also be defined as the ideas and manner of thinking characteristics of a group, social class, or individual. Three examples that we focused on was conservatism, liberalism, and nationalism. We then wanted to learn how each of these ideologies, conservatism, liberalism, and nationalism, affected the political and social actions of a government. To start the learning process each group gave their own definition, classified as the modern definitions, of a liberal, conservatism, and nationalism. After working together as a class to give each a more exact definition, we learned about our project to keep expanding our knowledge of conservatism, liberalism, nationalism. The project was to create a one minute project to explain our assigned word and give an example in the project at the impact the words had on political and social issues. To learn even more about our words each group got an article to read on their own word. After we reading the article and coming up with an explanation of how conservatism, nationalism, or liberalism influenced social and political actions we then had to come up with how to do our project. We had complete freedom of what we did as long as it was interesting. One group chose to do a live skit, three other groups chose to animate a picture, others chose to make a video of drawings and speak over it, my group chose to use Educreations and create images and then speak over them. After watching each other's groups video we came up with definitions and explanations on how the other words impacted social and political actions.

This imagine is the first imagine in our project on conservatism. The King is on his death bed and the son is about to become king when someone suggests a new idea. In the next slide you see what happens to the man. Here is the link to my group's video.  

To see the video that my group has created on conservatism click here! For my groups project we got the word conservatism. We read the article provided by our teacher on Edline. To read each article you may click here. We then gave our definition of what conservatism really was based on the article. Our project consists of the all powerful, very common monarchy, a king and his son, and what would happen in a conservative ideology if someone suggestion a non-conservative idea. Conservatism meant, like I said in the video, that only time-tested traditions were the only solutions to social and political problems. We showed a man suggesting a new idea which was immediately rejected. We learned that conservatism did not allow room for expansion and improvements in the government so the social and political issues were solved with the same thing always, time-tested traditions, like aristocracy and monarchy. The video explains and portrays conservatism because it shows that conservatism is about monarchy and old ways, it shows that there is no room for revolutions.

After watching the other groups’ projects on liberalism and nationalism as well as reading the articles everyone in the class was able to define and understand how they influenced political and social issues in the 19th century. We defined liberalism as the opposite of conservatism. It was a newer way of ruling in the 19th century that was based on merit, freedom, and rights for the middle class. The main focus was allowing the middle class to participate in the social and political issues. Many countries and people believe now that liberalism works wonders although back in the 19th century it was not as popular. Nationalism was defined as either countries or people that have bonds that connected them, like similar cultures, uniting to better themselves or prevent against intruders. Allies are perfect examples of this, they work with other countries to defend their country and the other country against an intruder. Another example of this would be how countries united to defend themselves against Napoleon. The three ideas are all very different and they all have their pros and cons to their influence on political and social issues.

Thank you for reading!

Julianna