SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antonio Gramsci, Bourgeoisie, Extortion
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Italian context: late unification, nationalism historically is an ideology that travels across the spectrum. Industry unequally being developed: the church, church loses almost all political power, remains strong ideologically, priests have moral authority, church still controls education, gra(cid:373)s(cid:272)i"s life, born on a big island off the island named sardine. I(cid:374) ital(cid:455) the(cid:455)"re i(cid:374)tegrated (cid:449)ith o(cid:374)e a(cid:374)other: civil society buttresses class rule through newspapers, church, education system, much more intertwined, consequences is that in italy that state power take more hold in society than in. Increasing gap b/t citizen and leader of the country people, there is a mystical bond b/t us, let us rehabilitate the country. Italian, german, irish: political boss, strong local politicians would trade favour w/ diff ethnic groups who were at the bottom at that time (give jobs, turn blind eye) and get their votes, chicago, boston, new york. Three different background elements: types of authority.
