Quiz Module 4.2 Cultural Hegemony

The term hegemony was coined by Gramsci to denote ____.

• the predominance of the working class

• the predominance of one social class over others

• the emergnce of a new order

• how mass media controls us

_____ is best known for his theory of Hegemony.

• Antonio Vivaldi

• Antonio Banderas

• Frankfurt

• Antonio Gramsci

Hegemony describes how states use cultural institutions to maintain _____ in capitalist societies.

• power

• income

• balance

• oppression

Hegemony not only refers to political and economic control but also _____ control.

• social

• cultural

• historical

• class

In the Marxist context, bourgeoisie refers to the _____.

• the rise of the middle class

• the elite class

• the capitalist class who owns most of society's wealth and means of production

• the working class who toils everyday to earn their keep.

Proletariat refers to the _____.

• the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production

• elite class of people

• people who support the concept of capitalism

• workers or working-class people, regarded collectively

The bourgeoisie propagated their own values & norms so that they became the _____ values of everyone in the state particularly those subordinated by it.

• commonsense

• cutural

• important

• social

People in the working class identify their own good with the good of the bourgeoisie and help to maintain the _____ rather than revolting.

• balance

• status quo

• equilibrium

• trust

Gramsci sees the ruling class maintaining its dominance over society in two different ways. What are these?

• commonense and coercion

• Consent and culture

• coercion and consent

• mass media and capitalism

This uses the political society, army, the police, legal systems of the capital estate to force other classes to accept its role.

• coercion

• revoltution

• military rule

• dictatorship