Gramsci’s hegemony concept rejects economic reductionism and reframes power non-coercively.
Evidence
In doing so, he sets the concept at a critical distance from all types of economic or mechanical reductionism, from both “economism” and conspiracy theory. He redefines the whole notion of power so as to give full weight to its non-coercive aspects. He also sets the notion of domination at a distance from the direct expression of narrow class interests. He understands that ideology is not “psychological or moralistic but structural and epistemological.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 906
Categorization
- XREF: Illuminates why Hall values cultural analysis as distinct from vulgar Marxism; key to the reader’s goal of treating these essays as contributions to economic thought. — connects to: Hegemony is not equivalent to ideological domination.; Marxism is not economic reductionism and requires attending to ideas in their own terms; Gramsci’s contribution is to complexify Marxist theory, not to supply general social science. (+1 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 906