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    Ideology, Hegemony, Discourse: A Critical Review of Theories of Knowledge and Power

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    2007-01-01
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    Stoddart, Mark C. J.
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    Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
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    For over a century, social theorists have attempted to explain why those who lack economic power consent to hierarchies of social and political power. They have used ideology, hegemony and discourse as key concepts to explain the intersections between the social production of knowledge and the perpetuation of power relations. The Marxist concept of ideology describes how the dominant ideas within a given society reflect the interests of a ruling economic class. In this paper, I trace the movement from this concept of ideology to models of hegemony and discourse. I then trace a second set of ruptures in theories of ideology, hegemony and discourse. Marx and others link ideology to a vision of society dominated by economic class as a field of social power. However, theorists of gender and race have questioned the place of class as the locus of power. I conclude by arguing that key theorists of gender and race Hall, Smith, hooks and Haraway offer a more complex understanding of how our consent to networks of power is produced within contemporary capitalist societies. This argument has important implications for theory and practice directed at destabilizing our consent to power.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5226
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    https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5226
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    Social Thought and Research, Volume 28 (2007), pp. 191-225 http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5226

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