SOCIAL: SOCIETIES' PRODUCT

Ideology is a set of ideas or beliefs in which suggest how society should be or ought to be.  Whenever I think about ideology I always look at it with consideration of the political spectrum.  This political spectrum is basically a way to categorize several ideologies.  From a capitalist perspective, each of these separate ideologies are basically products.  These ideologies are created or manufactured as products of society.  Society could be looked at as a machine when in consideration of structural functionalism.  This machine produces the products known as ideologies.  We have on the left communism, proceeded by socialism to its right, liberalism in the middle, conservatism to its right and on the far right fascism.  These are products that political parties use as a framework in order to advance their political agenda.  They are products because each of these ideologies has its individual features and people subscribe to them.  Political parties sell this product and it creates macroscopic changes within our environment. From a capitalist perspective the value that is given to these ideologies by the people produces a surplus which is the increased amount of subscribers.  People also contribute their own ideals in their attempt to be a brokerage or to please the largest amount of people with the least amount of resistance.  Therefore, the ideology is only a product once people subscribe.  Essentially a parties product are the people.  This can be seen via improvements to their quality of life or standards.  The ideology and the people the subscribe to these become an interrelated product of the societal machine.  This output then expands and grows to increase the amount of people that subscribe.