Ideology, Hegemony, Discourse

A Critical Review of Theories of Knowledge and Power

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15031397
AutoresMark C J Stoddart (0000-0002-5434-0161, University of British Columbia, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Data de publicação2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Thought and Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1094-5830 • E-ISSN: 2469-8466
EditoraThe University of Kansas (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17161/str.1808.5226
OpenAlexW2034822460
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas54
Referências citadas22

For over a century, social theorists have attempted to explain why those who lack economic power consent to hierarchies of social and political power. They have used ideology, hegemony and discourse as key concepts to explain the intersections between the social production of knowledge and the perpetuation of power relations. The Marxist concept of ideology describes how the dominant ideas within a given society reflect the interests of a ruling economic class. In this paper, I trace the movement from this concept of ideology to models of hegemony and discourse. I then trace a second set of ruptures in theories of ideology, hegemony and discourse. Marx and others link ideology to a vision of society dominated by economic class as a field of social power. However, theorists of gender and "race" have questioned the place of class as the locus of power. I conclude by arguing that key theorists of gender and "race"-Hall, Smith, hooks and Haraway -offer a more complex understanding of how our consent to networks of power is produced within contemporary capitalist societies. This argument has important implications for theory and practice directed at destabilizing our consent to power

Critical discourse analysis · Epistemology · Hegemony · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci