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Discussion of Gramsci's Cultural Hegemony
As a response to Karl Marx's notion that society's prevailing ideology reflects its ruling
class, Antonio Gramsci created his theory of cultural hegemony. According to Gramsci,
agreement to the authority of the dominant group is gained through spreading ideologies like
ideas, values, and norms through settings such as schools, churches, and tribunals (Cole, 2020).
These bodies are responsible for influencing people into the dominant social group's standards,
values, and views. As a result, the group controlling the entities has complete influence over the
rest of society. Those under the dominant team's authority begin to feel that forces outside their
control predetermine their society's economic and social situations, and this is when cultural
hegemony begins to take effect.
Gramsci came up with the idea of cultural hegemony to illustrate why Marx's projected
worker-led revolution failed to occur (Cole, 2020). Capitalism is based on the mistreatment of
the working class by the dominant elite, and Marx believed that the program's downfall was
inevitable because of this. Marx said that the working class would topple the ruling class if
subjected to any more economic exploitation. According to Marx, there would come a time when
the working class would be fed up with the acts and mistreatment of the working class and begin
a revolution that would deliver them from the hands of the dominant group (Cole, 2020). The
revolution, unfortunately, did not take place on a large scale.
Gramsci's cultural hegemony has a close relationship with the images such as those in the
Tintin books. His ideology is based on trying to explain why Marx's ideology failed. Marx's
ideology was aimed towards a revolution by the working class after getting tired of oppression
from the dominant group. Gramsci's theory of hegemony is about a particular group influencing
another inferior group based on values, beliefs, standards, and norms. The pictures in the book
illustrate people from two races; blacks and whites. The whites are comfortable in what they are
doing, while the black is under constant pressure to work. From the picture, it is evident that the
whites are dominant over the blacks because of the beliefs that existed, that blacks are inferior
before the whites, making it possible for them to get controlled and mistreated.
Discussion of the relation between Knowledge and Power introduced by Foucault
Knowledge-power is a term introduced in sociology by Michael Foucault, a French
philosopher. According to his understanding, power is based on knowledge and utilizes
knowledge (Keller, 2017). However, power is responsible for producing knowledge by modeling
according to its intentions; power is significant in creating exercise fields through knowledge. In
social sciences, the relationship between knowledge and power has been a primary theme and
attribute. The subjectivity and identity of the Belgian child reading Tintin are different from the
subjectivity and identity of the BIPOC child reading Tintin; these can be attributed to Foucault's
relationship between knowledge and power.
While natural sciences purported to be self-contained and provide universal truths about
human existence, Foucault did not believe in such a universal truth (Keller, 2017). He claims that
ideas and knowledge are always products of their period and a representation of ethical and
political situations. This understanding of knowledge already demonstrates the concept of
knowledge and power being intertwined. It is discovered that knowledge is molded by power

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1 Political Science Student's Name Institutional Affiliation Course Name and Number Professor's Name Assignment Due Date 2 Political Science Discussion of Gramsci's Cultural Hegemony As a response to Karl Marx's notion that society's prevailing ideology reflects its ruling class, Antonio Gramsci created his theory of cultural hegemony. According to Gramsci, agreement to the authority of the dominant group is gained through spreading ideologies like ideas, values, and norms through settings such as schools, churches, and tribunals (Cole, 2020). These bodies are responsible for influencing people into the dominant social group's standards, values, and views. As a result, the group controlling the entities has complete influence over the rest of society. Those under the dominant team's authority begin to feel that forces outside their control predetermine their society's economic and social situations, and this is when cultural hegemony begins to take effect. Gramsci came up with the idea of cultural hegemony to illustrate why Marx's projected worker-led revolution failed to occur (Cole, 2020). Capitalism is based on the mistreatment of the working class by the dominant elite, and Marx believed that the program's downfall was inevitable because of this. Marx said that the working class would topple the ruling class if subjected to any more economic exploitation. According to Marx, there would come a time when the working class would be fed up with the acts and mistreatment of ...
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