Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay.
The definition of hegemony states two things; subordinate groups give power through two different ways. One way is through consent, which does not mean that people give consent willingly but through societal normalized structures. Societal structures are normalized through what Gramsci calls “common sense”.It was created by Antonio Gramsci in order to understand the difference between dominant groups in society that have power and that use “intellectual and moral leadership” in an attempt to win over the less powerful submissive groups (Storey 8). In this way, hegemony will be demonstrated in youth culture.For Gramsci, hegemony combined traditional forms of economic and coercive (or violent) forms of domination with intellectual and moral leadership that made domination seem “natural” to the dominated.
Cultural hegemony is a concept put forth by the Italian, Marxist philosopher, Antonio Gramsci. The concept implies the dominance of a custom-made culture that meets the needs of the majority but serves the interests of the dominant social class.Introduction To Hegemony: Gramsci and Cultural Hegemony Origin The term hegemony stems from Classical Greece where the term hegemon was used to refer to a state, usually in this case a city-state, which held political and military dominance over others.
Prison Notebooks Gramsci defines Hegemony: “Hegemony as a form of control exercised by a dominant class, in the Marxist sense, a group controlling the means of production; Gramsci uses intellectual group to stand in euphemistically for class” (15). It seems that everything is determined by Intellectuals because even thoughts, goals and.
