Tuesday 4 February 2014

Cultural Hegemony

Gramsci, 1930

Cultural hegemoy is the philosophic and sociological concept, originated by the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, that a culturaly-diverse society can be ruled or dominated by one of it's social classes. it is the dominance of one social group over another e.g. the ruling class over all other classes. The theory claims that the ideas of the ruling class come to be seen as the norm; they are seen a universal ideologies, perceived to benefit everyone whilst only really benefitting the ruling class. 

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