Ideology is essentially a set of beliefs and values that supports and justifies a particular social or political system. It can be used to explain and legitimize systems of inequality and oppression. It is not necessarily based on scientific findings and is not exclusively used by functionalists or symbolic interactionists.

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Ideology is

A) empirically based on scientific findings.
B) used to justify current systems of domination and inequality.
C) a device used by functionalists to explain the workings of society.
D) a term used by symbolic interactionists to explain how individuals interact with each other.

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