COMS 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Antonio Gramsci, Power (Social And Political), Prison Notebooks

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 371
• Professor: Jessalynn Keller

Document Summary

Lecture 2: marx and media studies: ideology, hegemony, and. Influential german philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary thinker. Key idea: historical materialism the material conditions of a society"s mode of production (the way in which a society is organized shapes its politics, social relations and culture . Class struggle marks a society"s mode of production one"s class position is determined by one"s relationship to it (ex. Key concepts: alienation, value, commodity fetishism, ideology. Ideology: the mental framework the language, the concepts, categories, imagery of through and systems of representation which different classes and social deploy in order to make sense of, define, figure out, and render intelligible the way society works stuart hall. Marxist concept, marx emphasized ideology as the ideas of the ruling class. A worldview, bound within social power relations. Politicized concept ideologies can help to maintain or disrupt established power relations.