Ideological Hegemony is seen where a particular ideology is pervasively reflected throughout a society in all principal social institutions, and permeates its cultural ideas and social relationships. Ideological hegemony is linked to a set of ideas and beliefs that act to uphold and justify an existing or desired arrangement of power, authority, wealth and status in a society. The kind of ideological hegemony that operates in America is different from the mechanisms used by totalitarian states to maintain control. Ideological hegemony operates through many mechanisms including the media, education system, newspeak and others with the primary function of maintaining support for the dominant socio-economic system in the United States.
Hegemony is a concept of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci which refers to political and social domination. Ideological hegemony is a system of thought control. Social power can be exercised within any given society through ideological hegemony. Ideological hegemony operates through many institutions and mechanisms. The focus is on how each of these institutions acts to create and reinforce ideological hegemony. Government regulations can also act to pressure private schools to reproduce bourgeois ideological hegemony. A socialist ideology advocates the transformation of society from capitalism to collective ownership and economic equality. A liberal ideology associated with capitalism and capitalist societies upholds that system as the best, and most desirable form of social arrangement. Patriarchal ideology leads to male social domination of women. A racist ideology leads to classification of people into distinct races. Racist ideologies are used as justifications for systems of slavery or colonial exploitation. According to Dominant ideology thesis, there is in most societies a set of belief which dominates all others.
Ideological Hegemony and Global Governance
Thomas Ford Brown, Johns Hopkins University.
In After Liberalism, Wallerstein argues that liberalism is in decline, both as a system
and as a hegemonic discourse (Wallerstein, 1995). He holds that since the
collapse of Communism, no hope for liberation remains that can tame the world's
working
class, and that liberalism cannot consequently survive. I would argue that free-markete conomics ideology is more potent than Wallerstein allows, and that
laissez-faire libertarian utopianism could
conceivably prove as seductive to a disillusioned working class as socialist
utopianism was during the early 20th century. I speak to "libertarianism" as
it is understood in the United States: as a fiscally conservative and socially liberal
political philosophy that upholds individual liberties and individual property rights
above all other ideals. As such, libertarianism functions as the philosophical
justification for Chicago school economic policy.
Controversy and Ideological Hegemony in
Sociological Theory
Mark L. Wardell , Ellsworth R. Fuhrman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University. ABSTRACT: Charles Horton Cooley's
notion of the individual and society being twin-born has been labeled one of the major
breakthroughs in this controversy. Sociology, we contend, occupies an alienated position within capitalist
society where positivist epistemology serves as an
ideological veil. As an ideological
veil, positivism contributes to the recurring bifurcation of social reality. The dominance
of positivism within sociology, moreover, gives it a
hegemonic status, further negating any recognition that the individual and society are
interdependent.
Ideological Hegemony - Thought Control in
American Society.
In June 2003 a Washington
Post-ABC News poll found that about 1 in 4 Americans (incorrectly) believed Iraq
had used weapons of mass destruction during the war
with the United States. These misconceptions are the outcome of a system of thought control called
ideological hegemony.
Ideological hegemony in the United States operates in a similar manner. Critics play an
important role in perpetuating ideological hegemony. ideological Hegemony is the result of the way the
media, education system and other institutions are set up and have evolved. The power
elite, have far greater power, wealth and prestige than those below them.
During the First World War the government found that if they could convince the educated
classes that their war propaganda was true and kept them indoctrinated then it will magnify the effects of
ideological hegemony.
The idea of “objectivity” is also used to reinforce ideological hegemony. Ideas
and sources outside the liberal-conservative spectrum are dismissed as
“un-objective,” “biased,” “inflammatory” or sometimes “extremist.”
Whether liberal-conservative ideas happen to be correct and whether ideological hegemony
exists are two separate issues. Even if it could be shown that a philosophy within the
liberal-conservative spectrum were correct this would not change the fact that there
exists a social system, hegemony, which acts to indoctrinate the populace into believing
in those ideas.
Ideological Hegemony and The Indo-U.S. Nuclear
Deal - Priyanka Mahadevia.
Abstract: The Indo-U.S. nuclear deal is currently an extremely controversial issue that
faces strong opposition from states who view the deal as a violation of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation treaty, and an exemplification of the U.S.’s inconsistent
participation in the NPT regime. Current analyses of the NPT regime are centered on
identifying actors and policies that are worthy of censure, and that can be held
accountable for the regime’s collapse. My research moves away from this trend by
focusing on a key process, of hegemonic legitimization, in order to add an underemphasized
dimension to our understanding of the problems facing the NPT.
Class Domination and Ideological Hegemony
- David L. Sallach, Washington University.
Correspondence to Reprints of this article may be obtained by writing to David Sallach,
Department of Sociology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130.
ABSTRACT: The concept of ideological hegemony is introduced as
a significant component of a Marxist view of social order. The hegemonic process is
described and available evidence is examined in the areas of political socialization and mass media.
A pattern in which debate and discussion are circumscribed while alternative values and world views are ignored or suppressed was found to
characterize these two areas. This pattern was seen to provide further support for the
Marxist view that an ideological hegemony imposed by the dominant class is the ideational
manifestation of a social order based upon coercion.
Ideology and Growth Promotion - Bridger,
Jeffrey C.; Harp, Aaron J.
Journal of Rural Studies.
Abstract: Uses ideological hegemony concept to analyze one local elite's efforts to
"sell" community growth. Expands growth ideology research explaining wealth
transfer from public to social elite in local areas. Examines government, media roles of
disseminating "pro-growth" ideology with case studies. Property, progress, and
community identified as central to ideological hegemony.
The Discourse on the Digital Divide: Are We Being
Co-opted?
Ilhan Kucukaydin, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Penn State University - Harrisburg.
Abstract: This paper strives to reconstruct the digital divide discourse from a Gramscian
perspective in relation to educators’ role in cultural force in the process of
hegemonic dominance. Educators either serve the interest of ruling elites and help the
maintenance of ideological hegemony or counter-serve hegemonic forces by breaking the
cycle of dehumanization and oppression. In essence, the digital divide discourse and its
popularization were perceived as a product of ideological hegemony. In order to analyze
the digital divide discourse, this paper looked at the current literature related to
digital divide, and then examined technology’s historical relations with the
hegemonic power structure.
Ideological hegemony meant that the majority of the
population accepted what was happening in society as ‘common sense’ or as
‘the only way of running society’.
Hegemony and Historiography: The Politics of Pedagogy - Yvette Claire Rosser, PhD - A.B.D. - Yvette Claire Rosser is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin. She has a M.A. -South Asian History and Culture & a B.A. (with honors), in Asian Studies from UT Austin. Abstract: This paper situates a discussion of the influences of colonialism, nationalism, and politics on historiography and curriculum development within a comparative study of the contents of Social Studies textbooks in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. It traces the impact of colonial policies on pedagogical institutions in South Asia and their subsequent appropriation by the nationalist discourse. It discusses the ubiquitous implementation of the 'culture of textbooks,' which simultaneously brought about a loss of status for teachers and became instruments which reify and replicate class inequalities and religious and cultural differences by promoting rote learning and reproduction instead of dialectical.
Heritage Institutions, Resistance, and Praxis - Susan L.T. Ashley. Abstract: Abstract: Heritage institutions traditionally function as subtle hegemonic devices for the production and public representation of knowledge, meaning, and belonging. This article looks at the role of public intellectuals called heritage interpreters who work at heritage institutions as agents of knowledge production. The concept of the public sphere is considered in relation to the ideas of Antonio Gramsci on hegemony, the intellectual, and praxis to offer an expanded view of communicative production at heritage institutions. The article explores the interpreter’s role resisting ideological hegemony and commodification, and in creating spaces and conversations for alternative imaginings of and struggle toward public knowledge and radical pedagogy.
Religion and the Media in a Battle for Ideological Hegemony: the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and TV Globo in Brazil, BIRMAN P.; LEHMANN D.