PPT-Marxism, Cultural Hegemony

and the Media Revision Dominant Ideology and the media An ideology is a belief system that is constructed and then embedded in the public consciousness by the media Media texts represent the world usually in order to support a . Objective. Understand how to analyse Fight Club from a Marxist media perspective. Marxism. At the heart of Marxism, there is a dialectic – a binary opposition – a linked pair of ideas.. On the one hand, you have capitalism, the ideology wherein gaining capital – or wealth – is the basis for society. This leads to society being hierarchical. On the other you have communism, where the common good, and equality, are the basis of society. This leads to society being homogeneous – similar at all levels. . 3 . – . Cultural Hegemony (. Antonio Gramsci . ). Learning Outcomes. To know. that hegemony is a form of dominant ideology.. To understand. that hegemony is used to maintain power in society.. To be able. Key Terms. Inclusion. vs. . Exclusion. Overt . vs . Covert. Grand Narrative. Grand Narrative. Discourses in history that are foundational to ideologies. Global, cultural narrative that explains knowledge and experience. __. The Frankfurt School. - The . Neo. Kids on the Block -. Learning Outcomes. All. . will be able to recap the key points relating to Marxism.. Most. . will understand how this developed into Neo Marxism. Marxism. is an . economic. and sociopolitical . worldview. and method of socioeconomic analysis based on a . materialist interpretation of historical development. , a . dialectical. view of social change, and an analysis of class-relations within society and their application in the analysis and critique of the development of . Who is Marx?. MARXISM. Meaning. Encompasses many political theories advocated by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Human actions and institutions are economically determined, class struggle is needed to create historical change and . Civil society and the maintenance of . British imperial hegemony. Often used, rarely understood: hegemony. Term has its roots in classical Greece – Sparta as hegemon of Peloponnesian league. In the 19. Developing dialogue and democracy. :. Virginia Lea, leav@uwstout.edu. Dang Yang, yangda@uwstout.edu . Midwest Culturally Inclusive Conference. UW-Platteville. October 2013. Paulo . Freire. (1970): The interests of the oppressors lie in ‘changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them’ (de . Marxism & Social Change. .. Can we remember what Marxism said about the influence of religion? Explain, once again, what Marx thought about . religion.. Question:. How. . does Liberation Theology benefit the poor. Introduction. What comes to your mind when you hear the words “Marxism” or “communism”? . Does violence come to your mind? . What names are normally associated with Marxism? . Defining of Terms. The Political Spectrum. Just what are the Left and Right Anyway?. Left. Right. more economic interventionism. more laissez-faire. the . extent to which the government should . or . should . not . intervene in the economy in order to affect desired social outcomes. . Marx & Engels: . particularly drawing from . Theses on Feuerbach, Anti-. Duhring. , Dialectics of . Nature. , far from comprehensive. Limitations of Marx. Expansions and contradictions of historical materialism: VI Lenin, Alexandra Kollontai, Antonio Gramsci. social, political, and economic . thought derived from the writings of Karl MARX and his collaborator, Friedrich ENGELS.. At the centre of Marx's work is his analysis of . CAPITALISM. .. How capitalism arose, how it works (for whom it works better and for whom worse), and where it is likely to lead. . By Antonio . Gramsci. Gramsci. developed the notion of hegemony in the . Prison Writings. . The idea came as part of his critique of the deterministic economist interpretation of history; of “mechanical historical materialism.” Hegemony, to .