Dominant culture operates as an active process of incorporation, not static ideology

Evidence

When the idea of culture enters communications research, it emerges as the environment of an organism or a system to be maintained or a power over the subject. Whatever the truth of these views—and there is truth in all of them— culture must first be seen as a set of practices, a mode of human activity, a process whereby reality is created, maintained, and transformed — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Cultural domination has real effects without being all-powerful or all-inclusive; Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 527; Cultural domination shapes working-class perception without fully occupying the mind (+12 more)

Related

• Cultural domination has real effects without being all-powerful or all-inclusive (similarity 0.93)
• Hegemony explains class rule as cultural and political sway, not just economic interest (similarity 0.85)
• Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure. (similarity 0.85)
• Hegemony is achieved by more than mere class dominance (similarity 0.84)
• Popular-class culture is always shaped by dominant cultural production institutions (similarity 0.83)
• A class becomes hegemonic when its elite transcends narrow corporate interests (similarity 0.81)
• Hegemony is not equivalent to ideological domination. (similarity 0.81)
• Commercial culture shapes perceptions without simply duping an audience (similarity 0.81)
• Dominance is maintained through unstable equilibria that concede some subordinate interests (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural hegemony operates as a shifting balance of power, never pure victory or domination (similarity 0.80)
• Dominant cultural paradigms need not come from a society’s ruling agents (similarity 0.79)
• Higher culture is neutralized by incorporation into the established order, not by denial. (similarity 0.79)
• Popular culture is defined by its tension with dominant culture (similarity 0.79)
• Cultures impose dominant, institutionalized preferred readings that are contested but not determined. (similarity 0.79)
• Ideologies achieve effects by inflecting existing attitudes, not by domination or false consciousness. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Cultural domination has real effects without being all-powerful or all-inclusive #expands (0.80)
• Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment. #corroborates (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323
• Hegemony explains class domination without reducing it to narrow class-interest exposure. #corroborates (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 527
• Cultural domination shapes working-class perception without fully occupying the mind #expands (0.70)
• Hegemony explains class rule as cultural and political sway, not just economic interest #expands (0.70)