Gramsci’s concept enables a regional theory of superstructural spheres.
Evidence
This enlarged concept of class power and of ideology has provided one of the most advanced theoretical bases for elaborating a “regional” theory of the much-neglected and often reduced spheres of the superstructural and ideological complexes of capitalist societies. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 906
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: This ‘regional theory’ is the theoretical license for Hall’s own cultural studies work on media and ideology.
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- Gramsci’s concepts apply productively to colonial and non-European social formations. (similarity 0.83)
- Gramsci’s hegemony concept treats power as non-coercive and culture-based, not class-direct (similarity 0.83)
- Adopting Gramsci let Hall say things Marxism could not before (similarity 0.82)
- Gramsci centers the base-superstructure passage as the root of nonreductionist analysis (similarity 0.82)
- Gramsci’s hegemony concept rejects economic reductionism and reframes power non-coercively. (similarity 0.81)
- Gramsci and Laclau reconceived ideology as a terrain of struggle rather than dominant cement. (similarity 0.81)
- Gramsci links unconscious common sense to active ideologies that can organize masses. (similarity 0.81)
- Gramsci’s state concept explains how capitalism became a whole way of social life (similarity 0.81)
- Gramscian ideology links unconscious common sense to conscious mass organization. (similarity 0.80)
- Hegemony explains class rule as cultural and political sway, not just economic interest (similarity 0.80)
- Industrial class politics displaced but did not erase Gramsci’s regional-peasant concerns (similarity 0.80)
- Ruling class hegemony is secured through cultural and ideological leadership across civil society (similarity 0.79)
- Gramsci’s contribution is to complexify Marxist theory, not to supply general social science. (similarity 0.79)
- Structure and superstructure connect only through historically specific mechanisms, not automatic correspondence. (similarity 0.79)