COMM 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Artificiality, Bechdel Test, Supernanny
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Power and leadership maintained through processes of struggle and negotiation, especially through winning the consent of the majority of people to accept the ideas or ideologies of the dominant group as common sense (p. 205) We are all consenting to these ideas and circulation of these norms. As ideas and norms change, so too do the forms of hegemonic masculinity that are represented as normal . What is rugged in the past, may now be considered hot . A world view or activity that is in opposition to and challenges the dominant world view (p. 206) Anytime we challenge or present alternatives to mainstream values. Pointing out how normal representations don"t have to be normal. Hegemonic ideas get challenged and updated all the time. Sometimes hegemony is challenge by acts of resistance. Just because you"re not used to seeing something, doesn"t mean it"s not natural.