The concept of ideological and political education means that a society or social group exerts purposeful, planned and organized influence on its members with certain ideological concepts, political views and moral norms, so as to form social practice activities that meet the needs of a certain society or class.

Special contradictions in the research field of ideological and political education: subject and object, thought and behavior, subject ideology and object thought and behavior; The correct ideology of the subject and the wrong ideological and political consciousness of the object; Ideological and political consciousness of proletariat and non-proletariat; Proletarian thought spread by the thoughts and behaviors of subject and object; The contradiction between some social development requirements and people's actual moral level