Cultural Hegemony

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Cultural Hegemony domination by consent

Transcript of Cultural Hegemony

Cultural Hegemonydomination by consent

“policing by consent”

“The power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.”

“To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police…”

“To use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.”

Baseand

superstructure

Economic Base

Cultural superstructure

capitalism

education, family, religion, politics,

mass media

hegemony

“The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease.”

Cicero

Powerful Elite

The Mob

the coliseum

Powerful Elite

The Mob Crowd (audience)

Med

ia, Ed

ucation, Police

(the thin blue line)

influence

control

‘common sense’

mass entertainment

“the illusion of debate”

“the bewildered herd”

and when all else fails…