Hegemony refers to a form of control where the dominated group accepts and internalizes the values and norms of the dominant group, seeing their domination as natural or inevitable. This concept is often associated with the ideas of Antonio Gramsci, who described how cultural and ideological means are used to maintain power in a society.

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What Is Hegemony

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What is hegemony?

A) use of social controls that induce guilt and shame in the population
B) a stratified social order in which subordinates comply with domination by internalizing their rulers' values and accepting the "naturalness" of domination
C) overt sociopolitical strategies used to control people
D) the critique of power by the oppressed that goes on offstage, in private, where the power holders can't see it
E) open, public interactions between dominators and the oppressed-the outer shell of power relations

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