Hegemony

(noun)

Dominance of one social group over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.

Related Terms

Examples of Hegemony in the following topics:

  • National Pride

    • This form of nationalism arose in reaction to imperial and dynastic hegemony, which acquired legitimacy not from the bottom-up but from the top-down; in other words, from the authority down to the people.

  • Money and Fashion: The Commissions of Roman Patrons

    • Greece was a key province of the Roman Empire, and the Roman's interest in Greek culture helped to circulate Greek art around the empire, especially in Italy, during the Hellenistic period and into the Imperial period of Roman hegemony.

  • Postcolonial Discourse

    • Using the native varieties of the colonial languages, the Anti-conquest narrative addresses the Mother Country's cultural hegemony; by "writing back to the center" of the empire, the indigenous people create their own national histories in service to forming and establishing a national identity after decolonisation.

  • Introduction to Ancient Greece

    • Greece poleis spent this time under the hegemony of foreign rulers, first the Macedons and then the Romans, starting in 146 BCE.

  • Sculpture in the Hellenistic Period

    • Greece was a key province of the Roman Empire, and the Roman's interest in Greek culture helped to circulate Greek art around the empire, especially in Italy, during the Hellenistic period and into the Imperial period of Roman hegemony.