Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET August 2024 Political Science
Who observed that intellectuals 'are the dominant group's deputies exercising the subaltern functions of social hegemony and political government'?
AMao Zedong
BAntonio Gramsci ✓ Correct
CKarl Marx
DFrantz Fanon
Correct answer: (B) Antonio Gramsci — The thinker who described intellectuals as the deputies of the dominant group is Antonio Gramsci, so the answer is Antonio Gramsci.
Explanation
★The thinker who described intellectuals as the deputies of the dominant group is Antonio Gramsci, so the answer is Antonio Gramsci.
★He saw intellectuals as exercising the functions of social hegemony and political government on behalf of the ruling class.
★Through schools, churches and the press they shape the norms and beliefs of ordinary people.
★In this way they secure the consent of the masses to the existing order.
★Gramsci also spoke of organic intellectuals who arise from and serve a rising class.
★This view is central to his theory of cultural hegemony.
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