ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jeremy Bentham, Antonio Gramsci, Governmentality
49
ANT100Y1 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
49 documents
Document Summary
Those who are less equal give consent to those who are more equal. The postcolony: a former colony or dominated country, now independent, ghana, congo. India: state of all former colonies, taken together, often inherited the relations of production. Inherited means of production from colonial period: with foreign owners and managers remaining, or replaced by local personnel without structural changes. Hegemony: antonio gramsci, 1891-1931, spontaneous consent given by the great masses of the population to the general direction imposed on social life by the dominant fundamental group; this consent is. "historically" caused by the prestige, which the dominant group enjoys because of its position and function in the world of production. Notes: dominant, refers to society, prestige, refers to culture, spontaneous consent, required for hegemony, does not always occur. If it does not occur then there is a struggle: struggle can also be spontaneous, or can be explicit, organized.
