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This text is the first to present cultural hegemony in its original form - as a process of consent, resistance, and coercion. Hegemony is illustrated with examples from American history and contemporary culture, including practices that represent race, gender, and class in everyday life.
Class Contradictions and Antagonisms
Class Contradictions and Antagonisms
Hegemony begins in the factory.
Discussing class in a communication text is a risky business. The concepts and relations are complex and unfamiliar. Moreover, many communication scholars (e.g., King, 1987) accept the prevalent academic belief that power in the United States is the result of some combination of merit, skill, and persuasion (Dahl, 1967). References to social class are either summarily dismissed as being too simplistic for our modern mass society or they are thoroughly contested. Studies in the humanities have no interest in empirical studies of class, and “there is little agreement among social scientists … on the exact meaning of class or the explanatory power of the word itself” (McNall, Levine, & Fantasia, ...
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