Hegemonic domination works by disseminating dominant beliefs until they become common sense

Evidence

The first type of domination is commonly associated with coercive state action by the courts, the police, the army, and the national guard. The second type of control (“hegemony” proper) is more insidious and complicated to achieve. It involves subduing and coopting dissenting voices through subtle dissemination of the dominant group’s perspective as universal and natural, to the point where the dominant beliefs and practices become an intractable component of common sense. In a hegemonic regime, an unjust social arrangement is internalized and endlessly reinforced in schools, churches, institutions, scholarly exchanges, museums, and popular culture. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 465

Categorization

• DEFINE: Choudhury’s quoted definition of Gramscian hegemony versus coercive force, which undergirds her account of how Islamophobia becomes commonsense rather than merely illegal.
• XREF: Overlaps with the learned corpus’s Hall/Gramsci material on common sense reproducing pro-establishment definitions during social change. — connects to: Becoming common sense is a key route to hegemonic power; Dominant groups become hegemonic when subordinates accept their vision as legitimate. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3380; Domination becomes a mutual communicative asymmetry, not just objective control — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 315 (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• Becoming common sense is a key route to hegemonic power #corroborates (1.00)
• Hegemony succeeds when subordinate groups accept the dominant vision as their own #corroborates (1.00) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3380
• Domination only fully operates when it is common knowledge among those involved #corroborates (1.00) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 306
• Common sense is a key route to hegemonic power in democracies #corroborates (0.95)
• Ideological hegemony operates when subordinates internalize the dominant group’s justifications of inequality #corroborates (0.95)
• Domination over nature is a systematic attitude, not isolated events #complicates (0.90) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 173
• Dominant groups become hegemonic when subordinates accept their vision as legitimate. #complicates (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3380
• Domination becomes a mutual communicative asymmetry, not just objective control #complicates (0.85) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 315
• Hegemony as a term blocks reductive class-domination readings of political formations #qualifies (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 973
• Dominant-race domination is sustained by threat invested in the subjugated #complicates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1504
• Non-domination confers security that survives others’ changed attitudes #complicates (0.85) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 350
• Dominant ideology recruits the dominated by neutralizing rival ideologies’ antagonism #complicates (0.85)
• People recognize their subordination even under hegemonic rule #complicates (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 259
• Subordinate groups can challenge hegemony by invoking the dominant group’s own professed values #complicates (0.80)
• Apparent collectivism can conceal pure domination through delegated labor #complicates (0.80)