different between ideologue vs ideology

English

Alternative forms

• ideolog

Etymology

From French idéologue (circa 1800), from earlier idéologie (“ideology”) (1796). Classical compound on Ancient Greek roots, equivalent to ideo- + -logue.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?a?.di.?.l??/, /??.di.?.l??/

Noun

ideologue (plural ideologues)

1. A person who advocates an ideology, especially as an official or preeminent advocate.
   • 1989, Eric R. A. N. Smith, The Unchanging American Voter, University of California Press, page 98,

     An examination of the Nie et al. party and candidate levels over time (shown in Figure 10) reveals that the changes in the number of ideologues in the levels from 1960 to 1964 were caused entirely by changes in the candidate index.

   • 1991, Hong Yung Lee, From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China, University of California Press, page 113,

     Lin Biao's fall reduced the contending political groups to radical ideologues and bureaucrats, the latter headed by Zhou Enlai. Mao tried to bring the two warring groups together, relying on the ideologues to maintain a revolutionary momentum, while counting on the bureaucrats to preserve order and run the economy.

   • 2005, Rodney P. Carlisle (editor), Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right, page 229,

     The concept of ideology has its origins in the 19th century and was first used as a technical word by Destutt de Tracy. He was also considered the first ideologue, since he applied this word as a substitute for metaphysics.

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French idéologie, from idéo- +? -logie (equivalent to English ideo- +? -logy). Coined 1796 by Antoine Destutt de Tracy. Modern sense of “doctrine” attributed to use of related idéologue (“ideologue”) by Napoleon Bonaparte as a term of abuse towards political opponents in early 1800s.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /a?.di.??l.?.d??i/, /?.di.??l.?.d??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a?.di???l.?.d??i?/

Noun

ideology (countable and uncountable, plural ideologies)

1. Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
2. (uncountable) The study of the origin and nature of ideas.

Usage notes

Original meaning “study of ideas” (following the etymology), today primarily used to mean “doctrine”. For example “communist ideology” generally refers to “communist doctrine”; study of communist ideas instead being “communist philosophy”, or more clearly “philosophy of communism”; only rarely “ideology of communism”.

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References

Further reading

• "ideology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 153.
• ideology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ideology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• eidology