Hegemony

can be obtained by force, it cannot be secured and maintained, especially in modern society, without the element of consent.”. (67). Omi and Winant make it clear that tactics of the past, like genocide and segregation, will not be effective, so instead white people have given minorities some say in how they are ruled to give the illusion of control. Toni Cade Bambara may have experienced feelings like this in her own childhood in segregated 1940’s Harlem and chose Sylvia, the narrator and main…

discussed in class. In my opinion, the movie does a great job of covering all the concepts we covered in class that relate to the British Caribbean lifestyle which consist of; Beauty as a cultural construct for upper mobility, popular culture, and hegemony. Throughout the movie, the idea of using beauty as a construct for upward social mobility is very present. Early in the movie, Maria is dependent on her brother, after events occur and can no longer depend on her brother she is tasked with…

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…

society controlled by dominant class through “moral and intellectual leadership” and secondly, hegemony is “relations of dominant and dominated classes” (p.4). Gramsci refrains Weber’s “institutional ideology” because institutions are the ways of controlling society by bourgeois (p. 4). According to Gramsci (1971), state contains “civil society” within itself and hegemony settled in state “as political hegemony” (p. 5). It means that state refers to both “civil and political societies”.…

future-oriented students cultivate this special characteristic. Similarly, in the essay “Biographies of Hegemony”, Karen Ho talked about the collaboration between the Wall Street and the elite universities. From her opinion, smartness represents the admissions students received from the Wall Street. However, in the essay “Wisdom”,…

culture has a unique identity that has been uprooted ever since the beginning of her history. Throughout her history, America "the great" has forged her cultural identity to be a land of progress, democracy, corruption, and a country full of cultural hegemony. The Constitution of the United States of America was born by the idea of improvising. "Jazz is America's music" (Dyas, JB.), and America's roots are uprooted from this indigenous art form. Democracy in America is reflected upon the jazz…

The concept of politics of location refers to the idea that one’s social and political location affects their perception and understanding of their world and society (Naiman, 2012). Naiman (2012) illustrates this idea by using Robert Mankoff’s fishpond analogy. She explains that in the analogy, three fishes of different sizes see the world differently based on their size and place on the food chain. Naiman (2012) explains that structured inequality is viewed differently depending on whether the…

and Donald Trump and Britain’s decision to leave the EU (Earls). This is exemplified when he writes “…stub it out, your podium awaits.” He comments on the hegemony within our world today. Hegemony is when “a dominant group exercises ‘moral and intellectual leadership’ throughout society by winning the voluntary ‘consent’ of the masses.” Hegemony holds real power in interactions. By talking about an issue in such a way that it appears to be a “natural course” or by being molded to have similar…

Iraq’s decision to invade Iran was reflective of President Saddam Hussein’s desire to seize the Shatt al-Arab waterways and the oil producing province of Khuzestan and topple the Khomeini regime pursuant to his fears of Iranian hegemony and his aspirations of asserting Iraq as the pre-eminent Arab state. Within this framework, blame for the conflict rests with the Ba’athist ruled Republic of Iraq. Prior the war, Iraq enjoyed a meteoric rise to prominence in the Arab world. In…

The construction of the Nicaraguan Inter-Oceanic Canal raises several controversial social, environmental, political, and geoeconomic concerns for Nicaragua, its people, and the international community. Opponents are concerned about the potential for irreversible environmental damage, the disruption of indigenous communities, and the involvement of a private Chinese company that was given the 50-year concession to build and operate the canal. Proponents cite the canal as the only viable option…