Hegemony Characteristics, Organic Intellectuals and Ideologies, and Common Sense Creation

Political Ideologies
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Political Ideologies
Political ideologies are ideas, values, beliefs, and opinions, presenting a recurrent pattern. These ideas compete intentionally and unintentionally over making plans of actions for public policy to contest, explain, justify, and change the political community's existing political and social processes and arrangements. According to Eagleton (2006, p. 93-94), Marxist tradition views political ideologies as a slanted consciousness that reflects an exploitative material reality; or a false narrative essential in maintaining social order. Neo-Marxist approaches divide ideology into three perspectives. The first one perceives it as closed, abstract, and doctrinaire, impervious to experimental proof on a society. The second view it as a series of experimentally ascertainable behavior towards political matters that can be explored through behavioral means. Then the third one views it as indispensable mapping devices of political concepts and cultural symbols that constitute a crucial resource for shaping and understanding sociopolitical life.[Terry Eagleton, Ideology London: Verso, 1998.] [Eagleton, 1998.]
Drawing from the works of Antonio Gramsci, hegemony contains two key characteristics: force and consent. Hegemony cannon be cut into pure quantifiable domination. Hegemony is the supremacy of a certain kind where the ruling state creates an ideologically base...