As the American culture is adapted by other countries in means of economy, propaganda, and way of life we being to question whether or not it is a positive or negative effect on those countries. In “ Cultural Hegemony: Who’s Dominating Whom by Deirdre Straughan”, she explains that there is not a positive nor negative effect when it comes to the export of American culture. Straughan begins her claim by bringing up a theory that many people believe, that with the export of the American culture…
Narrowing Possibilities: Untested Experiences In her article, “Biographies of Hegemony”, Karen Ho explains how the vision that individuals have of investment banking and working on Wall Street is narrowing the students’ perspective of success. This tunnel-vision effect described by Karen Ho is connected to the “culture of smartness” which many students seem to believe in. In Susan Faludi’s text, “The Naked Citadel”, she also represents the idea of the a narrowing experience. Students who first…
In history there have been many beliefs about intimacy, prostitution, and marriage within urban communities in different countries. In the article “Masculinities And The Nation In The Modern World: Between Hegemony And Marginalization” by Sasheed Aderinto he clarifies on the concept about the expenses of a marriage bride within Nigeria, Africa. Marriage is critical within Nigerian communities because it represented the status of a man that can manage to afford an expensive bride. This created…
Hegemony Aspects in Rebellion Song Lyric Hegemony is the term that Antonio Gramsci, an Italian who was known as a leading Marxist thinker, used to denote one social party or individual’s predominance over others. This term is not used only for political or economic subject but also any case when the dominant party shows the ability to make the subordinate party sees the view as the dominant party sees it. In the music industry, especially in the contemporary popular music industry, it is…
Cultural hegemony is the domination and manipulation of one social group over another. Within this domination and manipulation, there is a struggle. The general public are mostly manipulated into thinking certain ideas, these ideas are inflicted on them unknowingly. This manipulation of the mind more often than not stems from many texts where the composer promotes their biases through stylistic choices. Types of texts that do this are novels, films and cartoons and more specifically Animal Farm,…
Rise through Force: European Hegemony and the Military Revolution With the dawn of the second millennium (C.E.), the bulk of Europe existed as a relative backwater and there was little foreseeable evidence that this fragmented conglomerate of fiefdoms would eventually surge forth to control a better part of the known and unknown world. But surge forth it did, and by the twentieth-century the West , for better or worse, had come to dominate and influence societies around the globe. As the…
confine of Regina Coeli prison. His long sentence resulted in his death in 1937 as he suffered from intracerebral haemorrhage. Gramsci produced a theory known as ‘hegemony’ which was found in his prison notebooks. His work contributed to the Marxist theory in the early 20th century. I will be focusing on Gramsci’s key…
Sir Julian Corbett’s Thoughts on U.S. Hegemony of Low Earth Orbit Satellites – manmade systems deliberately placed in Earth’s orbit – undeniably benefit humankind, from enhancing scientific understanding, communications, and situational awareness to expanding commerce and development. Correspondingly, low-Earth orbit (LEO) represents the point of entry for the security, economic, and informational benefits humans derive from space because almost every manmade object traveling through this…
Janet Abu-Lughod published Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D 1250-1350 in at exactly the right time in history; it was 1989, and the world was on the cusp of a great economic revolution and transition not unlike that of the 13th century on which she focuses her book. Primarily, she aimed to prove that a Eurocentric world system was not a permanent fixture since the Fall of Rome, and “that there was no inherent historical necessity that shifted the [world economic] system to favour…
start to lack creatively when the hierarchies main goal is for individuals to fit in a one-size-fits all model. In “Biography of Hegemony” and “Project Classroom Makeover,” both authors address their concern that the hierarchy in schools and Wall Street are placing standards on individuals solely on the importance of name and test scores. Karen Ho, in “Biography of Hegemony,” develops an investigating into the experiences…