Antonio Gramsci

In this essay I will compare Marxism and Liberal Pluralism and discuss their role on shaping the publics opinion. I will look at some contemporary examples of how the media can be viewed on both perspectives. I will explore the areas of the role of media as the fourth estate, Gramsci’s theory of Hegemony and medias role in a democratic society. “Marxism is the system of socialism of which the dominant feature is public ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.” (Greg…

COMMUNITY: Guardian Ad Litem Morgan Pristupa University of North Florida December 5, 2014 Introduction To begin with, the Guardian ad Litem community is international. Several places around the world have created Guardian ad Litem programs. For the purposes of this paper, I am focusing on the 21 local Guardian ad Litem programs in Florida’s judicial circuits. According to Guardianadlitem.org (2014), the Florida Guardian ad Litem program “advocates a strong…

Critical discourse analysis is a, somehow, new field in linguisticstics. Many scholars have worked on developing this new field which is really useful in people’s everyday life. Critical analysis of media discourse has been worked by Van Dijk (1988). He considered a comprehensive analysis of both the textual and structural level of media discourse and analysis at the production and comprehension level. Wodak (2001, as cited in Shyholislami) and her colleagues have worked on discourse…

Cultural Hegemony as Gramsci describes is “the relation between power and culture under capitalism.” Where the dominant group with power impose their social life in the society, thereby forming a set of social norms. One could argue that cultural hegemony is not restricted to…

Gramsci developed this concept based on Karl Marx’s theory that the leading ideology of society reflects the beliefs and interests of the ruling and more dominant class. Because the institutions inside of society are the ones that instill norms, values,…

imposed by hegemony rather than brute force. The oppressor can appear kind because the lack of violence also leads to a lack of response to the intangible abuse. Omi and Winant use Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain why using the people’s will against them is an effective way to maintain control. He [Antonio Gramsci], argued that hegemony was always constituted by a combination of coercion and consent. Although rule can be obtained by force, it cannot be secured or maintained,…

the government to the brain, industry to the muscular system, and media to the nervous system (29). Functionalism however, has been criticized by many sociologist though, for it presents negative suggestions on social order. One critic would be Antonio Gramsci. He was an Italian journalist that made contributions to Marxist Theory in which he focused on political and cultural elements of power (Cole). Overall, functionalism is a macro-level of social structure working together as a whole rather…

Living in complete freedom is the philosophy that is the foundation of anarchism. The rediscovering of the anarchist philosophy inundated the minds of British youth in the 1970s who felt that the British government was suppressing thier freedom with frivolous laws. There are several schools of anarchism such as anarchist-communism, collectivist anarchism, social anarchism, individualist anarchism, and mutualism, which all influenced the explosion of the punk rock movement. Nevertheless, it is…

As time passes, people come and go. Although the majority are forgotten, a handful of luminaries live on through remembrance of what they did while on Earth. Karl Marx is one of these people that have had enormous impact on the way we live today. As a revolutionary, Karl Marx, whose works and ideas were influenced by an increasingly capitalist society, has left a great impact on modern thought and society. To understand the ideas of Karl Marx, one must understand marxism and capitalism.…

inclined to use metanarrative. They intended to draw attention to the way that stories, or narratives are told, and particularly how they're always told from a definite point of view that the colonizers wanted. Subaltern is a term introduced by Antonio Gramsci to refer to the working class or the people who are socially and…