lesson 2 in Philippine Politics

1. Philippine Politics
and Governance

2. Rodrigo R. Duterte
Xi Jinping
Activity 1. Picture Analysis

3. Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Vladimir Putin

5. Guide Questions:
1. Who are these people presented, in the first
two slides?
2. What are your understanding in the last or
third of the activity?
3. How are they related to each other?

6. Political Ideologies

7. OBJECTIVES:
 Understand the meaning of political
ideologies
 Evaluate the characteristics and functions
of political ideologies

8. What is an IDEOLOGY?
 Idéologie (French word) refers to a new
“science of ideas”
 Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) coined
the term Ideology during the French Revolution
 Used in public 1796
 it becomes a weapon to condemn or criticize
opposing arrays of ideas or beliefs system.

9. BELIEF are people’s assessment of reality and what
they hold to be true whereas, VALUES are people’s
ideas about what is right or wrong
IDEOLOGY

10. What is a POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES?
 (Heywood, 2012) A political belief system;
 An action-oriented set of political ideas
 The ideas of the ruling class
 The world view of a particular social class or
social group
 Political ideas that embody or articulate class or
social interests

11.  Ideas that propagate false consciousness
amongst the exploited or oppressed
 An officially sanctioned set of ideas used to
legitimate a political system or regime
 An all-embracing political doctrine that claims a
monopoly of truth
 Seen as a commitments in order to change
political system (Roskins, etc. 2012).

12. Distinguished Ideologies from Ideas (Macridis
in Ranney, 1995)
 Comprehensiveness – covers ideas pertaining
many great matters, such as human beings place in
the universal domain, man’s relationship to the
Divine being, the highest goals of society and
government, essential nature of people and the
best means of achieving the highest social and
political objectives.

13.  Pervasiveness – set of ideas has not only been
known for a long time but has shaped the political
beliefs and actions of many people.
 Extensiveness – set of ideas held by a large
number of people and plays a vital role in nations
and states in political affairs.
 Intensiveness – set of ideas commands a strong
commitments from many of its adherents and
significantly influences political beliefs and actions.

14. Characteristics of Ideology
 Provide an explanation for problems that
confronts modern societies by providing futuristic
vision
 Is action-oriented
 Mobilize a large number of people

15. Functions of Ideology
 Addresses a basic human psychological needs
such as safety, freedom and community
 Provides believers with a sense of
understanding history and with clues about
what kinds of things they should pay attention
to or ignore.
 Is essential
 Is powerful

16. Questions?

17. Activity 2. Answer the given question below.
1. As a student, what is the importance
of having an ideology in life?
2. In your own way, how can you help the
present leaders in your community?

18. Directions. Write true if the statement is correct and False if
not.
1.Ideology is a concept.
2.Political ideology is nothing but a theory.
3.Ideology helps us to prepare in our future goal.
4.Political ideology can change people’s perspective and
behavior.
5.Political ideology is an action-oriented.

19. Thank you!!!