JOURNAL WORK 7

Re: MEDIA & SOCIETY CH. 12

1.  How is hegemony maintained?

2. Examine the Right/Left graphic visualization. Does this make sense to you? Think about your own ideology: where do your values fall along the political/ideological spectrum? Are you oriented more towards public or private interests? And why? Think of what life events could cause you to question your ideological values and shift more right or more left.

3. Next, think about our American political spectrum as it balances tendencies towards private interests and public interests.  What are some examples of public interests?  What are some examples of private interests? Now go even further: What would a society look like if it represented the farthest points of each side of this political spectrum? In other words...

• Imagine a society that caters only to private interests. What would this society look like?
• Imagine a society that is entirely serving public interests. What would this society look like?

MAKE SURE YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THE FOLLOWING TERMS:

• RSAs
• ISAs
• liberal pluralist
• HEGEMONY