ANT 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Michel Foucault, Doxa, Invisible Hand
Document Summary
The concept of power has been central in social sciences and philosophy as it has been elusive. Ability to impose one"s will on another. Ability to control the settings within interactions take place. Ability to organize the settings within which people interact. Power to control the rules of the game. Invisible hand type of power resulting from the structural relations in the society. Bourgeoisie developed in a hegemonic culture, which promoted its own values and norms so that they become common sense: values of all. Establish a particular way of seeing the world and human nature and relationships. Language and discourse are crucial to the establishment of hegemony. Dominant group exercises moral and intellectual leadership" throughout society by winning the consent" from people. The dominant order can be challenged and contested through popular resistance directed in various cultural forms and practices. Hegemonic discourse: one which has become so embedded in a culture that it appears silly to ask why? .
