Types of Hegemony Hegemony

2.1.3 Types of Hegemony

There are three types of hegemony, which is told by Gramsci Femia, 1987. The three types of hegemony are integral hegemony, decadent hegemony and minimal hegemony. In integral hegemony, mass affiliation takes unqualified commitment. Society shows a unity of moral stratification and fixed intellectuality. This is shown in organizational relationship between government and governed people. This relationship does not give a place for contradiction and antagonism on social and ethical level. It is a stable situation in hegemony. For instance, French people after revolution in 1879. In a modern capitalistic society, domination of highest-level society faces serious challenge. It shows that potentials of disintegration may happen anytime. It means that the conflicts just lurk beneath the surface of a mass affiliation. In other words, though a system has reached the needs or its objective, the mass mentality is not proper in their dominated thought. Therefore, the integration of culture and politics is fragile. This situation is called as decadent hegemony. In decadent hegemony, the conformity is not a stable condition. Many contradictions exist in this hegemony. The form of hegemony, which is lower than the two forms before is called minimal hegemony. Minimal hegemony is the lowest form of hegemony since it is a weak hegemony. This situation happens in Italy from the unification period until the middle of this century. Hegemony rests on the unity of ideology among economical, political and intellectual elite, which is together with unwillingness to every intervention of mass in civilized life. Thus, the hegemony group does not want to adapt their needs and aspiration to another class in the society. The dominant group does not conform their interests and aspiration with the interests and aspirations of other classes. According to Gramsci, those types of hegemony are based on stability of conformity, which is created by dominant and dominated people. In present day, the hegemony has developed into condition that is more complicated. 2.2 Deconstruction 2.2.1 Definition of Deconstruction