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  • Hegemony is a sociological concept developed by Italian Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci in prison, after he was incarcerated by the Fascists, between the late 1920s and the early 1930s. It refers to the dominance of a social class or group over the others in a given society. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Hegemony]

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