potential hegemony



This has been the strongest artifact I can identify that brings home the idea of hegemony, especially as Iran's investigation into Neda's death plays out in the concluding scenes.

Hegemony happens where a dominant group, organization, institution, or class controls societal order and shapes opinions by making their own ideas appear to be the accepted ideas.

When those subordinates to the dominant entity accept certain ideas as natural, they've actually yielded to social constructs created by those above them.

For example, our most recent census has put an end to the idea of a white majority in America. Yet, despite some efforts, mainstream American entertainment still depicts American culture largely as white, perpetuating the social construct that the minority divide still exists.

Over the course of your discovering artifacts, what come to mind in your experience that resonates with this theory of hegemony?

Here's another example, weapons of mass destruction.

2 comments:

  1. this was a powerful argument, All day today I have just been thinking about the views that I have, the way I control myself and the way that I believe others should control themselves. I have resolved that I will never try to control any other person, only myself. After I thought and though about Neda, I have decided that anytime someone has tried to control another person, throughout history and in my own life, it has never ended in a happy way. EVERYONE is free, persuasion is good and the way we can influence others, but never ever should any one person Force another's actions. I am different now.
    Thanks Neda

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  2. two plans:
    agency (self control)
    rulled (controlled)

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