POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Protection, Antonio Gramsci, Social Forces
17 Dec 2016
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Institutions helping to establish the rules and rights of the behavior of states universally accepted norms. Transnational actors facilitating the growth of social support and establishing material conditions. Hegemony is therefore a form of dominance, but it refers more to a consensual order so that. "dominance by a powerful state may be a necessary but not a sufficient condition of hegemony". Hegemony is constituted on three spheres of activity: social relations of production. The starting point for analyzing the operation and mechanisms of hegemony. Here production is understood in a broad sense and "covers the production and reproduction of knowledge. State power rests on the underlying configurations of social forces. It refers to the way in which leading social forces within a specific national context establish a relationship over contending social forces. The construction of an historical bloc cannot exist without a hegemonic social class.
