Ruling class hegemony is secured through cultural and ideological leadership across civil society

Evidence

Althusser then shares with Gramsci a classical concern for the manner in which the “hegemony” of a ruling class alliance is secured, at these other levels, through a formative and educative class leadership or authority over the social formation as a whole. Both of them argue that this enlarged or expanded hegemony is specific to the institutions, apparatuses, and relations of the so-called “superstructures” of the state and civil society. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the enlarged/expanded concept of hegemony as leadership exercised through civil-society superstructures, not mere state coercion.
• XREF: Connects to Gramsci’s prison notebooks and Althusser’s ISA essay; a core conceptual framework for understanding Stuart Hall’s later work on Thatcherism. — connects to: Working-class people must now perform ruling-class emotional norms to participate in public culture — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 743