Cultural domination has real effects without being all-powerful or all-inclusive

Evidence

Once again, in Gramsci’s concept of “hegemony,” for example, we discover the beginnings of a way of conceptualizing how classes, constituted at the fundamental level of production relations, come to provide the basis of the social authority, the political sway and cultural domination of a “class alliance on behalf of capital,” without reducing the idea to what Marx once called the “dirty-Jewish” question of class interest, narrowly conceived. This latter form of economic reductionism, Gramsci argues, conceives of history as “a continuous march é de dupes , a competition in conjuring and sleight of hand. ‘Critical’ activity [i.e., Marxism] is reduced to the exposure of swindles, to creating scandals, and to prying into the pockets of public figures” (Prison Notebooks ). Which of us cannot quickly recall that brand of Marxism of exposure? — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 527 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dominant culture operates as an active process of incorporation, not static ideology; Cultural domination shapes working-class perception without fully occupying the mind; Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 527 (+23 more)

Related

• Dominant culture operates as an active process of incorporation, not static ideology (similarity 0.93)
• Hegemony explains class rule as cultural and political sway, not just economic interest (similarity 0.89)
• Hegemony is achieved by more than mere class dominance (similarity 0.88)
• Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure. (similarity 0.88)
• A class becomes hegemonic when its elite transcends narrow corporate interests (similarity 0.86)
• Hegemony is not equivalent to ideological domination. (similarity 0.84)
• Popular-class culture is always shaped by dominant cultural production institutions (similarity 0.84)
• Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural hegemony operates as a shifting balance of power, never pure victory or domination (similarity 0.82)
• Commercial culture shapes perceptions without simply duping an audience (similarity 0.82)
• Dominant classes survive crises by out-maneuvering subordinate groups (similarity 0.80)
• Cultures impose dominant, institutionalized preferred readings that are contested but not determined. (similarity 0.80)
• Working-class recreation was saturated by popular imperialism rather than autonomous (similarity 0.80)
• Domination persists wherever cultural and institutional safeguards are absent, not only under explicit tyranny (similarity 0.80)
• Hegemony is a shifting power balance, never total victory or domination. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Cultural domination shapes working-class perception without fully occupying the mind #expands (0.80)
• Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy #qualifies (0.78)
• Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure. #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 527
• Hegemony explains class rule as cultural and political sway, not just economic interest #expands (0.70)
• Racialization can proceed from cultural traits without any phenotypic difference #exemplifies (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 88