The Sociology Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by DK

Author:DK [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781465445223
Publisher: DK Publishing
Published: 2015-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

The Marxist view of society is that life is an ongoing struggle of competing groups; these groups are determined economically, and under modernity the struggle has intensified into a contest for control between a minority ruling elite and the majority, made up of workers. Italian socialist and social thinker Antonio Gramsci tries to explain why revolution is not precipitated in a crisis, as it should be according to classical Marxist theory. He argues that repression by the ruling class is insufficient to secure a stable social order; there must also be ideological subjugation. This happens in a complex process whereby the ruling elite propagates its views of the world so that they are accepted as common sense and largely beyond contention. Gramsci calls this “hegemony,” a concealed mode of class domination that explains why workers can become Fascists rather than revolutionaries.

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