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Comment: Gramsci’s concept of Hegemony.

  • UPSC 2016
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  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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Hegemony, from the Greek hegemonia (leadership), is Antonio Gramsci's name for the intellectual and moral leadership through which a ruling class wins the consent of those it rules. Where coercion works on bodies, hegemony works on minds: people accept an order as their own common sense and believe it serves them.

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