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Ideology Is a Practical Social Map

Ideology is best understood non-pejoratively as a picture of the social world that we use for practical purposes to navigate it; it becomes pernicious only when that picture is missing major elements or distorted in ways that lead us to behave badly or treat others unjustly.

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Speaker

Elizabeth Anderson

Evidence Quote

It's not a pejorative use of the term. But it can become pernicious if our picture of our social world is either missing some major elements or maybe distorted in various ways that leads us perhaps to behave badly or treat other people unjustly.

Source

139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and IdeologySean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:29:50 AM

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