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The political/cultural dominance or authority of one population over all others

Why Is This a Problem?

  • Look at the root Hegemonic ideologies that create societal inequality
  • Stop addressing only the societal issues
  • Remove yourself from your position when examining social systems

Address The Privilege Men Experience, versus solely trying to fix the wage gap

Why Fix This?

  • Issues are engrained within our Social Systems
  • To eliminate issues (Racism/Sexism etc.) become educated on what hegemonic ideologies create inequalities in the first place

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Kaishan Aravinthan

Brad Clifford

Jon Metz

Plants: Social Justice Issues

What is Hegemony?

  • Addressing that these ideologies exist is the first step in removing them and moving forward towards equality for all

Hegemonic Ideologies in Society Lead to

Social Justice Issues

Disability Discrimination

Disabling Environments and Media Portrayal

Classism

Prejudice Based on Socioeconomic Divisions

  • Social System and Infrastructure is built based on Hegemonic Ideologies
  • Not accessible to those that differ from the norm
  • Often environments and social systems disable individuals
  • Media portrayal of Disability poorly represents realities
  • Lower standards placed on education provided for low SEC children
  • Social System in place that build on prejudice
  • Higher class in power, able to continue and increase their wealth at the cost of those below them

LGBTQ Discrimination

Inability to Accept Gender Fluidity

Sexism

A Result of Gender Supremacy & Roles

  • Transgender people experience difficulty in accessing health care
  • Health care is supposed to be universal
  • Identifying as LGBTQ limits access to jobs, endangers personal safety
  • Pay gap between women and men
  • Media representation of Male vs Female Athletes
  • Gender roles are placed upon people from a very young age
  • Chastised by society for not adhering to gender roles

Racism

A Result of Whiteness and its Dominance

  • Being Non-White makes you inferior
  • Seen by society as an undesirable trait
  • Race becomes a limiting factor in how successful one can be

What do we do?

Root Causality

Accept White Privilege, versus solely trying to eliminate racism

Resistance

Supports and Builds on Hegemonic Ideologies

  • Denial
  • Discreditation
  • Positionality Bias
  • Ignorance

Socioeconomic

The Rich get Richer

  • The poor are lazy, poor family values etc.
  • The poor deserve to be poor
  • The rich work harder and earned their wealth
  • Perpetual cycle creates classes and doesn't easily allow for movement between classes

Gender Binaries

Versus Gender Fluidity

(Dis)-Ability

Gender & Gender Norms

  • The belief in one or the other; male or female
  • The expected relationships associated with each gender (Heterosexual Relationships)
  • Gender is fluid, not binary

Dominance of the Able-Bodied

Dominance of the Male

  • Power associated with Males
  • Males represented as a superior
  • Behavior Norms
  • Males are aggressive, successful, educated, strong, hyper-masculine
  • Females are soft, mothers, child caregivers, serve males
  • People identified by potential limitations
  • Projected as burdens on society
  • Mis-represented within media
  • Not represented at all
  • Represented as pitiful or object of interest

Race

The Dominance of Whiteness

  • White as the Dominant Race
  • Being White allows you unearned privileges
  • The association of Whiteness to power and success

Roots: Hegemonic Ideologies

If You Support

EQUALITY FOR ALL

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Society is Diverse

Diverse, But Not Equal

Oppression of all other Populations Occur

Inequality Results In

  • The leading population forming the dominant ideology
  • This is the Hegemonic Ideology
  • As a Result...
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