I suspect that an even easier way to get to the conclusion that EA is an ideology is to just try to come up with any plausible statement of what the concept means. At a minimum, I think the concept includes:
A system or set of beliefs that tend to co-occur.
Some set of goals which the beliefs are trying to accomplish
EAs tend to have a shared set of goals and tend to have shared beliefs, so EA is an ideology.
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I suspect that an even easier way to get to the conclusion that EA is an ideology is to just try to come up with any plausible statement of what the concept means. At a minimum, I think the concept includes:
A system or set of beliefs that tend to co-occur.
Some set of goals which the beliefs are trying to accomplish
EAs tend to have a shared set of goals and tend to have shared beliefs, so EA is an ideology.