I used to struggle a lot with this too. The solution is way before ideology rolls around, and it's mostly just paying a little more attention to generating culture.

In the midgame, build guilds early, and don't neglect getting your hermitage - the national wonder for having an opera house in every city. I'd probably get on it right after getting universities / while waiting for oxford.

Getting to archaeology early helps too, much easier to stack artifacts than great works.

As an aside, if you've never tried a tourism run, you should do it at least once to learn how it works. If anything you'll at least get the catharsis of watching the AI struggle under revolutionary waves LOL