PSC 441 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Hegemony
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Cultural hegemony refers to domination or rule maintained through ideological or cultural means. It is usually achieved through social institutions, which allow those in power to strongly influence the values, norms, ideas, expectations, worldview, and behavior of the rest of society. People don"t control ideas; ideas dcontrol people. Recognition that weapons are nothing in comparison to the beliefs of the person behind the weapon. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.
