The Hegemonic Domain of Power Justifies the Practices of Power

question 145

Multiple Choice

The hegemonic domain of power justifies the practices of power through a dominant ideology, or a system of ideas and beliefs that underlie common practices that permeate all levels of society. Through hegemonic justification_____.

• A) oppressed people learn to resist domination and fight for justice
• B) oppressed people internalize the classification systems that posit them as inferior to others
• C) systems of power are revealed in their truest forms as oppression of the majority for the benefit of the minority
• D) the structural domain of social institutions is cut off from and contradicted by the interpersonal domain of everyday interaction

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