Popular Culture Perpetuates the Hegemony of Capitalism

Hegemony

This video helped me really understand what hegemony is... My favorite quote from the entire clip is, "Ideological practice shapes and lived relations to the social formation."

In twentieth-century politicasl science,  the concept of hegemony is central to cultural hegemony, a philosophic and sociologic explanation of how, by the manipulation of the societal value system, one social class dominates the other social classes of a society, with a world view justifying the status quo of bourgeois hegemony. (Wikipedia, 2011)

Work Cited:

Wikipedia. (2011, October 17). Hegemony. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony