Questions for Crehan, Chapter 5
1. Why is subaltern culture ‘historically on the defensive’?
2. What does Crehan mean by stating that hegemony poses the question of
how complex power relations are mapped out in a given social setting?
3. What is the most common definition of hegemony give by Gramsci?
4. How is the concept sometimes defined by Gramsci? (p. 102-103).
5. Are state and civil society distinct, bounded universes?
6. Why do subaltern groups have difficulties in creating a coherent and
systematic accounts of the world and the way that it operates?
7. What is the relation between the advance of a new mass culture and the
advance of the subaltern groups?
8. Why does Gramsci think that the study of folklore is important?
9. What is common sense?
10. What is good sense?
11. What is the difference between good sense and common sense and how
are these related to implicit and explicit conceptions of the world?
12. How might Gramsci see hegemony as operating ‘implicitly’ and
‘unconsciously’?