SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci, Eidetic Memory
11 May 2015
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1891-1937, italian scholar: founded communist party of italy. Imprisoned by mussolini (fascist) in 1926 after creating an anti-fascism movement: selections from the prison notebooks work he did based on marx"s ideas while in prison. Capitalists" class controls ideas as it controls social institutions. Ideological control: dominant ideas reflect capitalist interests mask social inequalities. No one can rule using force alone. Hegemony of capitalists" ideas only works when the working class goes along with them. When we keep hearing these ideas, they become common sense, true and right. (consent) the working class starts to believe what the elites want them to. A few elites control the media and they can show the world the ideas they accept and hide the ideas they don"t. Gaining consent: social institutions (schools, media, and religion) disseminate and legitimate ideas. It is exercised in daily life by everyone; embodied: this isn"t how power actually works; it criticized the foundation of marxism.
