SOCIAL: AN ANNALYSIS OF HEGEMONY

Hegemony is the idea that a person or group obtains leadership and dominance.  Hegemony is obtained through coercion or consent.  Coercion uses aggression and or force in order to be able to persuade.  Consent aims to provide concessions to be able to suggest a position.  In hegemony, people forgo their point of view for the dominant entities view.  The hegemon plays a significant role in shaping the culture of a community.  They influence the values, morals and beliefs of people.  An example of hegemony is the government.  This government apparatus is the source of power and they dictate the rules and guidelines in which people obey.  Hegemony requires a certain type of responsibility and accountability for it to be able to be sustainable as people through consensus can overthrow their dominance.  Hegemony seeks to maintain its dominance by neutralizing social threats.  They do this in many ways but parties that join forces to ascertain this position are disfavored by the hegemon.  This is essentially the idea of conflict theory.  In this theory it states that society is a conflict with multiple groups who have conflicting interest.  These groups then vie for power and control.  The proponents of social control specifies that society imposes control to suppress behaviors.  Viewing hegemony from this perspective allows one to be able to understand its idea.  As hegemony plays a main part of influencing the people they seek to dismiss view that conflict with their narrative, this therefore is an adequate explanation of its process.  I suppose hegemony maintains a social structure of society and prevents anomie or social disorganization.  Hegemony allows for people to be able to unite and in that they can mobilize together to accomplish societal objectives.