Hegemony
noun
Leadership or dominance by one group, country, or person over others.
The hegemony of the US in world politics eventually waned.
Often appears as...
- cultural hegemony
- economic hegemony
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Academic
noun
Influence or control over another country, a group of people, etc.
Sue explained their plan to challenge the company's hegemony in the industry.
Often appears as...
- imperial hegemony
- corporate hegemony
noun
The dominance of a single way of thinking, and the power one group has over others to make other groups see the world in a certain way.
The film is about the media's production of cultural hegemony.
Often appears as...
- ideological hegemony
- media hegemony
Usage tips
Academic
noun
Leadership or dominance by one group, country, or person over others.
The hegemony of the US in world politics eventually waned.
Often appears as...
- cultural hegemony
- economic hegemony
Usage tips
Academic
noun
Influence or control over another country, a group of people, etc.
Sue explained their plan to challenge the company's hegemony in the industry.
Often appears as...
- imperial hegemony
- corporate hegemony
noun
The dominance of a single way of thinking, and the power one group has over others to make other groups see the world in a certain way.
The film is about the media's production of cultural hegemony.
Often appears as...
- ideological hegemony
- media hegemony
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Power Dynamics
Consider who is in control and who is being dominated when you use 'hegemony'.
After the war, the country's hegemony over the region was undisputed.
Pro Tip 2/3Overlap Allowed
Hegemony can involve economic, cultural, and military aspects all at once.
The empire extended its hegemony across all aspects of society, from culture to commerce.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Forceful
'Hegemony' often implies consent of the dominated, not just coercion.
The leading nation maintained its hegemony not by force, but through strategic alliances.
Pro Tip 1/3Power Dynamics
Consider who is in control and who is being dominated when you use 'hegemony'.
After the war, the country's hegemony over the region was undisputed.
Pro Tip 2/3Overlap Allowed
Hegemony can involve economic, cultural, and military aspects all at once.
The empire extended its hegemony across all aspects of society, from culture to commerce.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Forceful
'Hegemony' often implies consent of the dominated, not just coercion.
The leading nation maintained its hegemony not by force, but through strategic alliances.
Pro Tip 1/3Power Dynamics
Consider who is in control and who is being dominated when you use 'hegemony'.
After the war, the country's hegemony over the region was undisputed.
Pro Tip 2/3Overlap Allowed
Hegemony can involve economic, cultural, and military aspects all at once.
The empire extended its hegemony across all aspects of society, from culture to commerce.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Forceful
'Hegemony' often implies consent of the dominated, not just coercion.
The leading nation maintained its hegemony not by force, but through strategic alliances.
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Clay Shirky: How the...
The telephone? You guessed world peace. Sorry for the spoiler alert, but no world peace. Not yet. Even the printing press, even the printing press was assumed to be a tool that was going to enforce Catholic intellectual hegemony across Europe.
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Advocating for gender...
issues were confronted it's a tough go male hegemony mutates through every corridor of power political religious institutional academic let me end with a revealing anecdote from the world of HIV
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Clay Shirky: How the...
The telephone? You guessed world peace. Sorry for the spoiler alert, but no world peace. Not yet. Even the printing press, even the printing press was assumed to be a tool that was going to enforce Catholic intellectual hegemony across Europe.
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
issues were confronted it's a tough go male hegemony mutates through every corridor of power political religious institutional academic let me end with a revealing anecdote from the world of HIV
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Quote examples
Aloe Blacc
American Musician
People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.
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Neri Oxman
American Architect
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
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Robert C. Solomon
American Educator
To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.
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Meltem Demirors
Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a private enterprise like any other which is fueled by personal agendas, regulation, and the quest for geopolitical hegemony.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
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Okky Madasari
Indonesian Author
Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Dustin Hoffman
American Actor
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
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Jennifer Egan
American Novelist
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.
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Stuart Hall
British Activist
The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.
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Aloe Blacc
American Musician
People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.
Quote examples
Neri Oxman
American Architect
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
Quote examples
Robert C. Solomon
American Educator
To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.
Quote examples
Meltem Demirors
Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a private enterprise like any other which is fueled by personal agendas, regulation, and the quest for geopolitical hegemony.
Quote examples
Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Quote examples
Okky Madasari
Indonesian Author
Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
Quote examples
Gore Vidal
American Novelist
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Dustin Hoffman
American Actor
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
Quote examples
Jennifer Egan
American Novelist
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.
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Stuart Hall
British Activist
The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.
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