Neo-Marxists Flashcards
Gramsci - The Intellectual
The intellectual - as a social role, traditional and organic
Gramsci - Schools
Schools as a means of creating new intellectuals to carry out social hegemony of the state – wor for ‘willing consent of the people
More schools and more specialized schools means a more complex society
Gramsci - political parties
Political parties serve to combine power of traditional and organic intellectuals within a group
The State Apparatus
Althusser
Ideological - religion, schools
Repressive - Police, PIC, courts
Cultural Hegemony
Althusser
Cultural hegemony is not a tool of the state so much as it is a product of it – state apparatuses manufacture CH so people consent to participate
Social Action
Habermas
Types:
Teleological (decision making)
Normatively regulated (acting toward or against norms)
Dramaturgical (presentation of the self)
Communicative (coordination and action through communication)
Communicative Action
Communicative action is communal action about arguing and coming to agreement about truth states
Revolves around the necessity of mutual understanding – society creates rules as much as it is bound by them
Habermas believes we can create a free society through democratizing communication
Habermas - Rationalization
Rationality is not about possessing knowledge but how knowledge is used, rationalizing is about a justifying collective
Life World
Habermas
Combo of the three worlds - objective, social, subjective
The objective world - the agreement reached about baseline reality
The social world - collective action to validate that agreement, the validity of the ‘truth’
the subjective world - the intersubjective recognition of the validity claim the speaker raises
