Situations reproduce hegemony yet remain not fully determined by it

Evidence

This seems to be the distinction between an ethnomethodological and a radical symbolic interactionist approach, at the level of the micro-study of television. For ethnomethodology takes the overall social order for granted: each encounter is thus a reproduction, at the level of meaning construction and the situation, of a given social order, which remains essentially unaffected by these transactions. … Each encounter, therefore, puts the “structure in dominance” to the test: and the differing definitions of situation must struggle for dominance, win assent for their outlook against others, try to amplify definitions so as to favor the dominant perspective, etc. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 879

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reader’s interest in articulation and cultural studies methodology. — connects to: Demand meanings get fixed only through hegemonic struggles over frontiers. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 266; Status dynamics let hegemony persist without any conspiracy — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 810; Hegemony works by making the status quo appear to lack alternatives.