Hegemony's Influence On Culture

Anthropologists define power as the ability to take action if the face of resistance, through the use of force if necessary. The three aspects or modalities of power are authority, influence, and power itself. Some examples of power could be torturing and individual to get information, black mail, or keeping people enslaved. While authority is described as the ability to take action based on a person’s achieved or ascribed status or moral reputation. Unlike power, authority indicates the legitimate, socially approved use of power within particular institutions. This is pretty well known to those individuals that are currently living in the West. Our own elected officials hold a specific type of authority to govern our lands. Influence is the ability to achieve a desired end by exerting social or moral pressure on someone or some group. An example of this is a child trying to convince his parents to let him go out with his friends. He might bring up the fact that he’s been doing well in school and therefore persuade them to let him go. Power advocates the
What, according to Gramsci, is hegemony and how does it relate to culture? If outright violence between classes is relatively rare, what maintains hierarchies and class on a daily basis? Give an example of hegemony in action from the US. Discuss two ways the notion of hegemony affects how we think about culture.
For Gramsci hegemony was the domination of some over others through determining the terms and frameworks through which people think about the world and themselves. The perception of hegemony insists on connecting the whole social process to specific distributions of power and influence. The notion the hegemony was also thought to be constructed during the negotiated construction of a political and ideological agreement which integrates both the dominant and dominated groups within a culturally diverse society. It also provided anthropologists with a way to think about pervasive institutionalized