What is an ideology?

This unit will introduce students to the key concepts relating to various ideologies, including the characteristics of individualism versus collectivism, the Enlightenment philosophers who introduced many of our current ideas, and an attempt to define liberalism.

Unit Overview
Potential Case Studies
Case Study Worksheet

Potential Assignments

You may want to use these "fill in the blanks" notes to help you when watching the videos

Lesson One: An introduction to the key ideas of an ideology

Video Link

Be sure you clearly understand the key concepts in this video by answering the questions in the "Checking for Understanding" section, as we will be building on these ideas in class.  GoogleDoc of Understanding questions 

Top Ten Notes
Some other resources

Lesson Two: Individualism Versus Collectivism

Lesson Three: Enlightenment Philosophers

Lesson Four:  What does Liberalism mean?

Alternative Resources

  • ​An interesting website to check out that shows various ideologies on current issues is ProCon.org
  • Commanding Heights is a PBS documentary site that looks at globalization and ideologies.

Tentative schedule fall 2022 - Please see Daily Agenda in Google Classroom for what we did that day