Democracy Upside Down: Public Opinion and Cultural Hegemony in The United States

by Calvin Exoo

Overview

Cultural hegemony theory is a branch of political sociology that concerns the way in which political sociology is transmitted. Democracy Upside Down weaves together, for the first time, the central arguments and the most important threads of empirical work on the theory of cultural hegemony in the U.S. Whereas most research on political socialization concludes that it is unclear exactly where the most cogent influences on political learning lie, this volume focuses upon the top-down process of political learning: the extent to which elites can impose their ideology on masses by domination of various sources of political ideas. In addition, liberalism-or the ideology of elites according to hegemony theory-and the socializing agents through which it can be imposed is discussed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275924539
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/13/1987
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

CALVIN F. EXOO is Associate Professor of Government at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface
Cultural Hegemony in the United States by Calvin F. Exoo
The Broken Promise of Democracy by Calvin F. Exoo
The Bias of the News by Calvin F. Exoo
The Great American Dream Machine by Douglas Kellner
Education and Inequality by Michael W. Apple and Kenneth Teitelbaum
Ideology at Work by Alan Draper and Richard Guarasci
Alternative Cultures, Autonomous Institutions by Calvin F. Exoo and Alan Draper
Looking Upward by Calvin F. Exoo
About the Authors