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• that the dominant ideology of society reflects the beliefs and interests of the ruling class.
• Cultural hegemony refers to domination or rule maintained through ideological or cultural means.
• Cultural hegemony refers to domination or rule maintained through ideological or cultural means. It is usually achieved through social institutions, which allow those in power to strongly influence the values, norms, ideas, expectations, worldview, and behavior of the rest of society.
• the group that controls these institutions controls the rest of society.
• Cultural hegemony is most strongly manifested when those ruled by the dominant group come to believe that the economic and social conditions of their society are natural and inevitable, rather than created by people with a vested interest in particular social, economic, and political orders.

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