A Realist Theory of Hegemony

Bibliographic Data

ID8975474
AuthorsJonathan Joseph (0000-0002-4578-211X, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume30
Issue2
Pages179-202
Publication date2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-5914.00125
OpenAlexW2075545989
LanguageEN
Citations received19

A new approach to understanding hegemony is developed based on the method of critical realism. Breaking from the traditional interpretations that emphasise inter‐subjective, superstructural and cultural aspects of hegemony, this article looks at hegemony's structural context and the conditions for its possibility. A realist conception of hegemony relates hegemonic projects to structural reproduction and transformation via Bhaskar’s transformational model of social activity. In doing so this model is itself modified to incorporate hegemony as the political moment of social reproduction. A distinction is made between hegemony in its structural aspect, and specific hegemonic projects as emergent possibilities

Context (archaeology · Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Epistemology · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Realism · Reproduction · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci