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Ethical hegemony
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Abstract Drawing upon Peter Ives' book, Gramsci's Politics of Language, this article examines the linguistic origins of Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. This is then compared with Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the habitus, with a particular focus on how the two theories conceptualize social change. Ives s... view more
Drawing upon Peter Ives' book, Gramsci's Politics of Language, this article examines the linguistic origins of Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. This is then compared with Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the habitus, with a particular focus on how the two theories conceptualize social change. Ives shows that Gramsci understood language standardization as either democratic or repressive depending on the nature of the standardization process. Ives uses this to argue that the opposite of repressive hegemony is not the absence of hegemony but a progressive hegemony grounded in democratic processes. While Boudieu's emphasis on social reproduction over social change makes his work less useful for conceptualizing such a progressive hegemony, this paper argues that his theory of symbolic capital (including linguistic capital) offers us a unique insight into the obstacles faced by agents of progressive social change and in so doing sheds light on the limitations of Gramsci's approach.... view less
Keywords
theory comparison; hegemony; Bourdieu, P.; Gramsci, A.; habits; language
Classification
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Method
theory application; basic research
Free Keywords
Gramsci; Bourdieu; hegemony; language
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 355-365
Journal
Rethinking Marxism, 21 (2009) 3
Status
Preprint; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works