Hegemony refers to a stratified social order in which subordinates comply with domination by internalizing their rulers' values and accepting the "naturalness" of domination. It involves the consent of the subordinates to be ruled, rather than simply their acquiescence to force. The idea of hegemony was developed by Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci.

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What Is Hegemony

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What is hegemony?

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

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