Hegemony - 10 Minute Philosophy - Terms 

I love how casual the tone of this is. It sounds like the presenter recorded it while half asleep, late at night. So chill. So unpretentious.

You know. Its a damn shame this channels dead, this video was amazing and incredibly helpful. I imagine that if they kept it up with the explainitory videos for scocio-philosophical concepts they'd probably do really well.

Nice: "Hegemony is a special type of agreement, in which the person agreeing doesn’t necessarily understand what it is that they’ve agreed to."

Whoa! You just turned my unnecessarily dense textbook into something totally digestible and entertaining! Thank you so much! Wish me luck on my exam lol x

"Controlling a person’s loyalty is the key to power. For Gramsci, power comes from consent and, according to him, it originates in subtle, otherwise innocuous types of agreement."

I'm a 3rd year Communications undergrad & Hegemony only now just clicked and makes so much sense now. Thank you.

I’ve been so overwhelmed with the constant chaos over the last four years and it’s refreshing to see the intellectual information is so readily available. Thanks for this

This was such a great breakdown seriously. So good. Challenging too. It really made me think about how, at times, I often mold my approach in certain social constructs around my want to be accepted, rather than accepting who I am. And in turn, acting or behaving in such a way, that I deny my true self.

Antonio Gramsci is one of my favourite philosophers and I think (as a philosophy student) the greatest marxist philosopher. Here in Italy is very important and if you have the opportunity his writings, you can easily recognize how actual they are. Sorry for my not perfect english but it’s 2 AM here and I am a little bit sleepy lmao

All these brands everywhere and we are made to believe that we need them. Wow man. Oh I'm so going to watch all your videos. Fcking amazing. Thanks a lot!

Will grow crops in front yard

Minute 9:52, asking "Who is the authentic you?" made me think of Erving Goffman on Interaction Ritual and of Herbert Blumer on symbolic interaction; he stated that there isn't an "authentic you" since we all have circulating roles.

fantastic video. Well done and paced. Love the nerdy examples too, harry potter Lotr, etc. But, I don't think an individual can free themselves from hegemony, they can decide to see the bars that imprison them and therefore decide on which prison they wish to inhabit. You cannot fully function without habitus but you do have the power to choose what your habitus is.

Whelp that made my Gramsci reading a lot easier to understand. Thank the lord for the ability of other people to "break it down".

This is very educational and helpful for understanding what cultural hegemony is; the critique I have is all of the examples you have shown to demonstrate hegemony are represented through male agents. I'm pretty sure that women are affected by cultural hegemony too, and your video would benefit from considering the other 50% of the population.

I think that there needs to be a similar video on civil society, Hegemony is only half of the equation as I've read it. Hegemony is the form that ideological upbringing leaves you in, but civil society is the instrument by which hegemony is propagated and spread, and in a dialectical sort of way also the starting point of the counter hegemonic processes which Gramsci ultimately sees coming together in the Communist Party.

Love this tone! A great way to draw more minds to philosophy. Knock down that ivory tower!

I want to like this over and over. I especially loved how you ended the video, by showing that code switching isn't inherently bad, as some would argue the 'True self' doesn't exist, your just a collection of the different roles you fill. Trying to be 100% the same person in all your roles creates a boring grey rock of a person , who isn't effective. I know when to be professional and know when to let loose. sometimes these world's collide and I'll play it in the middle (not get too crazy at the holiday party)

Thanks for explaining the concept of cultural hegemony. The examples you gave: pine tree, diamond ring, and grass, are all rooted in symbolism. Pine trees don't "die" during the winter, so they symbolize rebirth or eternal life. Diamonds are the hardest and clearest gem and are a good symbol for perfection, therefore they are used for marriage to symbolize perfect love. Grass comes from Renaissance ideas about gardening, sometimes referred to as Grottos in art history, these gardens where about mankind's command over nature.

Wow, nicely put together video for such a low subscriber count. Subbed!!

Awesome job, i have been trying all morning for someone to explain this Hegemony thingy thanks for your work.

I find it difficult to get these points across to people, because they will quickly jump to the defense and claim you're calling them stupid. But I don't think they're stupid, they're just underestimating how powerful the forces of hegemony are over their own beliefs. Any pointers?

I thank you from the bottom of my heart, you helped me greatly. I wish you could explain all my problems during class like this. I am a subscriber now.........

you've just saved my assignment. thank you so much for making these videos and explaining it in such a fantastic way!

I really enjoyed how accessible this video made Gramscian theory. And, yes, I hit the subscribe button right after watching it!

I've never listened to an academic video that's interesting like this. Thank you

Would you like to post more videos? It was really helpful

Would be amazizng if all professors teach like this!

This is very helpful, and makes the term 'hegemony' much clearer to understand. Thank you so much!

Hey! I'm a high school teacher and I teach a couple sections of a critical media literacy class. I think this is going to be a great resource for my kids. We're just now coming up on a month or so working together, and we're grappling with Foucauldian discourse and power, basic semiotics, and the like. I'm for sure going to look through the rest of your stuff for other useful videos. Please consider working on one for Foucauldian discourse and power if you haven't--that stuff is really valuable and notoriously slippery. Thanks so much! I'm for sure subscribing!

this almost started an existential crisis for me but also helped me a lot. thank you...?

The ending "Keep on thinking" really makes me keep on thinking

Really amazing job on this. You just gave me the best idea for my final paper. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!!

and right/left hegemony dominates us ALL!

(I looked it up:) The definition of hegemony is leadership or dominance of one group over another. A student government leadership in a school. The predominance of one state or social group over others. and or, that of one state or nation over others.

A wonderfully concise way to explain a complex theory. Thank you.

Really good video, though I was under the impression Gramsci wrote about hegemony to explain the lack of an international proletarian revolution, rather than looking for an explanation for fascism. And that for him, capitalism was the dominant cultural hegemonic ideology.

Great video! Really enjoyed the first nine minutes, helped me gain an understanding of what hegemony is!

The narrator's tone makes it way more easier to understand.

What is steel to the hand that yields it........Basically, it is just "The pen is mightier than the sword"

Wow! I really enjoyed your video on hegemony. We are reading, "The Strange Enigma of Race in Contemporary America" by Bonilla-Silva in my sociology class. I had never heard the term hegemonic rule before and after doing a google search, I found your video. I truly enjoyed your video and the way you put it together. The movie parts were awesome as well. Thank you for taking such great care to make the wonderful videos. Because I enjoyed the video so much, I went to look through the rest of your videos to see if there might be something else relative to what we are working on in class, but the descriptions all look the same. Most read logic. Can you fix that? I subscribed to your channel and will be telling others in my class about it. Again, Thank you for putting an awesome spin on the material.

Mind Blown. Thank you for putting this together.

This channel is underrated!! that was so useful and comprehensive! thanks a lot =)

You actually are able to explain this compared to my professor, thank you!

This was excellent. Thank you for making it.

Excellent analysis!

George Clooney philosophical explanations. I like it.

Sir. Please come back and put out more material.

A pity you stopped making Philosophy videos, very useful.

Begging the question does not mean To Raise Another Question! Informative video thanks!!!

Awesome Hegemony 101 tutorial! Question: Are our species overt, covert, and implicit-biased SR-HAAC bigories (the 18 ways we act-them out violent and 18 ways we act them out non-violent) an incrementalism form of anti-hegemony (challege to the current status quo hegemony) or are they in and of themselves an emerging hegemony (Gramsci's never-ending process-theory) that seeks to replace and dominate -- because "egalitariansim" or "equality" are abstract concepts that in-practice will always be some form of "less-equality" (less-privilege)/"more-equality" (more-privilege for any population but especially our entire differentiated species? Those SR-HAAC Bigotries ("interesectionalities"): Sexism, Racism, Heterosexism, Ageism, Ableism, Classism!

Amazing video! Thank you.

Good video and I really liked the connection between the authors, even if their surnames were changed to Gramsi and Bordu ahahah Nobody probably cares, but still: the combination of letters SC followed by I or E in italian makes a SH english sound, as in "show", so read it as gramshi; while Bourdieu is a bit more complicated because the last sound is not present in the english language if I'm not mistaken, but it can be approximated by the sound that the first A makes in words such as "apparently"

what an interesting video! not at all what I expected to find while looking into Antonio Gramschi! sweet stuff!

perfect examples to clear ones assumptions. Well put.

Awesome video. Thank you!

Great explanation & animation!

Come Back Please!! Nothing for 3-years?

Witty and original series, well done. The intro sounded like Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour with a wink and a nod.

Excellent explanation. We will be reposting at the American Intelligence Media and look forward to seeing more videos from you.

Woooow I will pass my exam after this

Very nice voice and helpful in understanding hegemony

Just an excellent video. Cool.

Until the BBC radio announcer informed me one afternoon about transphobia I wouldn't have been worried, aware nor concerned that I may be judged as guilty for being a transphobic rotter and most obviously being scared of transexuals on the self-evident truth that I've never met or known one in this multicultural and diverse society. Hence I deducted that the reason is that I must be consciously or subconsciously transphobic which is a very, very bad thing to be ! So I am a very bad person ! For I am now excluded from being a member of the set of the group of right thinking people who knew about transphobia and could say:- "But not me chum ! I'll have you know that some of my best friends are transitioning and non-transitioning, transexuals. I'm a right thinking person and maybe even a transsexual myself indeed !" Because i don't have the resources to get out so much I am less likely to rub up against a transsexual in a multicultural and diverse social setting so I listen to the radio and tv and I have to pay the BBC a license fee or risk jail so they have moral authority over me. It's like they are the present day Moses beaming down extra commandments from the lofty heights of the radio transmission tower and I am nought but an unworthy, ignorant anti-social sinner, a powerless recipient and humble beneficent of their right thinking pronouncements. That to me is Hegemony.

Great video, thanks a lot.

Great video. I just bought the Gramsci prison notebooks and was a little lost as to how to anchor my reading within a broader context. I really enjoyed the example of code switching as a way of observing hegemony at play. One question as someone who does this a lot. Are we fighting hegemony if I code switch to as The Art of War says, to "deceive?" the enemy? If the larger goal is to challenge it? Or are we simply reinforcing cultural hegemony? Strategically thinking here.

This is brilliant! Sadly it seems like you don't upload anymore

Great introductory teaching resource, thanks.

Talking about elections of 2016, he says, "Take a typical Joe." I immediately thought of Joe Biden. November 24, 2020. He will be (probably) our next President.

Really good one , love the examples and the explanation. Thank you!

We grow grass because your kids can play on it and not track mud in to the house and because the amount of food you could grow in your spare time without industrial farming equipment is economically irrelevant.

It is possible to create your own symbols as expression of identity, this is what artists do.

In the context of mythical worlds: you've got the ideas completely wrong. There is a clear distinction between physical and ideological hegemonic power, and using fiction instead of evidence is kind of counterintuitive towards your argument.

Just learned about Gramsci and started reading his prison notebook. I never felt so power less and so programmed. My believes and thoughts being taught to me felt like anchors to my spirit. I am slowly deprogramming myself and I've never felt freer. No wonder they steer us away from marxist philosophers, because knowing their strategies is how we free ourselves from our marxist culture.

Could you pls kindly do a video on Gramsci’s take on common sense & good sense.

Could you pls kindly do a video on Gramsci’s take on common sense & good sense.

This is a really good video, keep it up

brilliant explanation. thanks.

Beautiful video, well presented and very thought provoking! Subbed!

Could you maybe also do a video on postcolonial theory? I am reading Said's Orientalism at the moment and hegemony is very closely linked to the mindset of the colonised. I would be very interested in how you will tie this link.

Subbed, well made.

Every time you said Bordoo I died a little inside

Good presentation.

Kazimierz Dąbrowski (1902-1980), a Polish psychiatrist and psychologist, developed the Theory of Positive Disintegration over his lifetime of clinical and academic work. Dąbrowski's theory of personality development emphasized several major features including: personality is not a given universal trait, it must be created-shaped-by the individual to reflect his or her own unique character (personality shaping)personality develops as a result of the action of developmental potential (DP) (overexcitability and the autonomous factor), not everyone displays sufficient DP to create a unique personality.developmental potential is represented in the population by a normal (bell) curve. Dąbrowski used a multilevel approach to describe the continuum of developmental levels seen in the population.developmental potential creates crises characterized by strong anxieties and depressions-psychoneurosis-that precipitate disintegrationfor personality to develop, initial integrations based on instinct and socialization must disintegrate-a process Dąbrowski called positive disintegrationthe development of a hierarchy of individual values-emotional reactions-is a critical component in developing one's personality and one's autonomy, thus, in contrast to most psychological theories, emotions play a major role in this approachemotional reactions guide the individual in creating his or her individual personality ideal, an autonomous standard that acts as the goal of individual developmentthe individual must examine his or her essence and subsequently make existential choices that emphasize those aspects of essence that are higher and "more myself" and inhibit those aspects that are lower or "less myself" based upon his or her own personality idealcritical components of individual development include autoeducation and autopsychotherapy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_disintegration

Culture and knowledge is power

Bless You!

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GREAT video!

what if feeling free is also cultural hegemony? :)

thank you very much! your channel is absolute gold!

so well organised and informative.

Marvelously done. Thank you.

Your examples are good (love the Conan the Barbarian example!) but I think it would help if what you said was the same as the words that came up on the screen

This helps me heaps! I'm actually in uni studying cultural paradigms but it is really philosophical .... :)

Nice to watch this!!

I think that if you think its wrong to be allied to the hegemony, this type of thinking is part of the hegemony of post modern/marxist/ post colonial thinking in Liberal academia. Its a hegemonic loop of your own making :P

Great video!

Excellent content 👏

Yes Gramsci knew his stuff - he also knew that hegemony works best by filling the minds of the masses with scepticism towards the material words rather than scepticism towards ideas. I.e. he realized that Einstein's relativity was not the epitomy of science or even science at all but mere scepticism (philosophical agnosticism): read his Prison Notebooks and find out!

GReat job I'm Making a follow up to this give you full credit