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Ideology is: a collection of beliefs held by, "an individual," group/society. It can be, described as a set of conscious and unconscious ideas which make up one's beliefs, "goals," expectations, and motivations. An ideology is a comprehensive normative vision that is followed by people, governments, or other groups that is considered the: correct way by the——majority of the "population," as argued in several philosophical tendencies (see political ideologies). It can also be a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of society such as the elite——to all members of society as suggested in some Marxist and critical-theory accounts.