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dominance  

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  • A term used by Marxist theorists to describe the hierarchy and interaction of elements involved in social formation. Louis Althusser (1968) first used the term in the 1960s to explain a process of dominance and subordination that results in social structures. [Source: The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Dominance]

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