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Sound familiar? The term Cultural hegemony describes the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class, who manipulate the culture of that society — the beliefs, explanations,perceptions, values, and mores — so that their ruling-class worldview becomes the worldview that is imposed and accepted as the cultural norm; as the universally valid dominant ideologythat justifies the social, political, and economic status quo as natural, inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class.In philosophy and in sociology, the term Cultural hegemony has denotations and connotations that derive from the Ancient Greek word ἡγεμονίαhegemonia “leadership”, “rule”.Hegemony is the geopolitical method of indirect imperial dominance, with which the hegemon (leader state) rules subordinate states, by the threat of intervention, an implied means ofpower, rather than by direct military force — that is, invasion, occupation, and annexation. (Source-Wikipedia)
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:15:42 +0000

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