Characteristics Of Hegemony

In any successful work of non-fiction, authors employ the use of rhetorical analysis to articulate their main points and ideas. Mike Rose’s essay, “Blue Collar Brilliance,” focuses on the fact that looking down on blue-collar workers is a common occurrence in America and people fail to understand how a person can be intelligent if they had dropped out of school. Throughout the essay, he refutes this notion and explains why blue-collar intelligence may be different from the intelligence gained by years of schooling but it is of the equal stature, since it helps them in their occupation. Rose uses pathos and other rhetorical devices to inform the audience of his belief: blue-collar workers are under appreciated and overlooked as many people fail to see the difficulties and cognitive demands involved in their daily routines at work.

In this story, “Blue Collar Brilliance” the author Mark Rose protested that intelligence can be consistent by the amount of education a person has done. Rose advises that blue collar and service jobs lacks more intelligence. In the essay, Rose talks about “how he grew up observing his mother as a waitress in coffee shops and restaurants” (1034, Rose). He describes his mother as charismatic because she loves her job and a hard worker, also she puts her heart and soul in being a waitress. Rose describes her mother’s job on how she what orders people wanted, how much time it took for each dish to be made, and how she became a professional at analyzing the affecting rights of her customers and employees. “ He also describes his uncle’s job  at the General Motors factory and demonstrates tons of amount of intelligence that was mandatory of him as he jumped from being in the production line to administer paint jobs” (1036, Rose). “Rose explains in the story on how he observed different blue collar workers and he came to the closure, that each blue collar worker has a skill that takes a great deal of mind power to master” (1038, Rose).  The central claim of the story is, “many kinds of physical work does not require a high literacy level” (1041, Rose). Some examples of this claim would be, “like anyone who is effective at physical work, my mother learned to work smart, as she put it, to make every move count” (1034, Rose). “I couldn’t have put it in words when I was growing up, but what I observed in my mother’s restaurant defined the world of adults, a place where working habits of blue-collar workers and have come to understand how much my mother’s kind of work demands both body and brain (1034, Rose). “Still, for Joe the shop floor provided what school did not, it was like schooling, he said, a place where you’re constantly learning, Joe learned the most efficient way to use his body by acquiring a set of routines that were quick and preserved energy” (1036-1037, Rose). “He lacked formal knowledge of how the machines under his supervision worked, but he had direct experience with them, hands-on knowledge, and

It shines a light on changes that stem from cultural hegemony that not only does it come from a few persuasive to the right area of an affluent individual but it can also come from the deliberate aspiration a half-conscience hopes which concludes little with class relations. Lears wanted to showcase how certain influential Americans have unintentionally changed their social results which in turn transforms their own class concept of cultural hegemony.

Over many centuries, society tends to frame the obscene differences to antagonize and alienate each other whether it's about a political or religious view, social reasons, or financial situations. In “Blue Collar Brilliance”, Mike Rose provides an invigorating story to persuade his audience to understand that having a blue collar job compared to a white-collar job does not determine how smart someone is. Rose uses anecdotes, rhetorical question, and logos to show that blue-collar workers learn just as much without a formal education.

A child’s abnormally high IQ may trigger thoughts of undoubted success for many of us, but Outliers shows us that many with unbridled promise fail to deliver. This study shows that almost all “geniuses” that fail to complete post-secondary degrees have one glaring trait in common: socioeconomic status. Gladwell presents the case of Chris Langan, a man who’s IQ nears 200 and taught himself to read by age four. Langan spend his adult years as a bouncer and later ran a horse farm. This is hardly dignified work for “the smartest man in America.” Langan’s only mistake was growing up poor. Gladwell compares Langan with Robert Oppenheimer, architect of the atomic bomb. While both were extremely intelligent, only Oppenheimer grew up affluent and gained necessary skills needed to succeed. While Langan had difficultly figuring out the procedures necessary to fill-out financial-aid forms in college, Oppenheimer was raised to learn social niceties. The author goes into great detail explaining how the experiences provided to Oppenheimer through family wealth helped separate him from a fate all-to-often

Gladwell reveals that a person’s status or appearance allows them to automatically appeal to ethos. People often judge someone else’s character by his or her appearance. Some people may have stronger presences than others, and this contributes to how other people perceive the individuals with a more noticeable aura. For example, Warren Harding’s appearance led the people around him to believe that he would be a great presidential candidate. Harding appealed to the public because his appearance and ethics established trust in the people. Likewise, the way a CEO might present himself allows people to recognize the authority that he has over other people. Both Harding and the CEO are men who have established their reputations as a result of their

Smart people can indeed do dumb things, being smart doesn’t imply that one always does the right thing. Steve Jobs, Rajat Gupta and George Bush all were smart people in very different situations. Yet the greatest commonality between them was “Cluelessness” (Bolman & Deal). Not receiving a crystal clear picture or making sound decisions can lead smart people to tread on the wrong path. “Cluelessness is a fact of life, even for very smart people. Sometimes the information they need is fuzzy or hard to get” (Bolman & Deal pg. 5) Being misinformed (Bush) , being unethical (Gupta) , misunderstanding the purpose and mission of an organization and failing to recognize people (Jobs), were all reasons which contributed to smart people and leaders to

Hegemony meaning the influence of one country over another, I believe America qualifies. I believe America has great influence in several other countries. For example, Coca colonization is being inherited by several other countries. McDonalds is becoming worldwide. The people from other countries are being influenced by American customs and adapting them to theirs. I want to study abroad and when I attended the session meetings I learned of various schools that provided the classes in English. This was astonishing to me, since it would not be difficult to go abroad. The English language has been learned and put to use. Also, I am not very informed on how other militaries work, however I can be assured that Americas’ military is strong. I know

The individual and collective economic power are based on an unfair system, on a system that leads one to believe that "the bigger, the better," and that having

For this week's journal entry, I chose to relate Lull's idea of hegemony to a Variety article about written about Idris Elba appearance in relation to the casting of the new James Bond movie. In James Lull's article Hegemony, he identifies hegemony as the power or dominance that one social group holds over others. He speaks abut how hegemony is a method of gaining and maintaining power over the non dominant groups. Hegemony also helps instill and reproduce the dominant ideologies in culture. In my opinion, this is very closely related to a recent Variety article I came across regarding the new James Bond movie set to release within the next year. There has been much talk amongst social media sites about who will actually play James Bond in

Hegemonic states are ultimately set to fail. These states only seek to change rules at will and use force to achieve certain goals. States that strive to become a hegemony only end up pushing themselves into a corner because trying to attain full dominance over other states would only put a large target on that state. “Inferior” states would fight to try to get rid of the hegemonic state and become the new hegemony and this would only repeat again in many cycles unless an alternative was implemented. Chomsky believes in an “institutional framework of domestic power.”1 Chomsky criticizes the United States of asserting its dominance over other states in an attempt to have full control of what other states do, say, and act upon. Chomsky

There is a question that which system (empire, balance of power, concert of power or great power hegemony) provides the best conditions for advancing peace, prosperity and civilization?

What exactly is western hegemony? This question can be easily answered with a couple of minutes using google. To save your time though I will answer it for you. Hegemony is defined as, “the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group” (Merriam-Webster). Western hegemony is the west exerting hegemony on the east. This has been an ongoing theme for some time now. The west is considered more advanced or better than other countries. This is in the heads of the people of the east at all times as they compare themselves to the west.

hegemony will make a strong country easy to launch a war, to seize the colonies, thus breaking the balance of power.

In this essay, I will discuss if cooperation between states today are challenged by a struggle of ultimate hegemony. I will look at this from two different perspective. I will look at how the threat of the rise of China and the hegemonic stability theory may affect cooperation between states. In order to completely understand this one as the understand what a hegemon is. Hegemony is defined, as according to Heywood, as the leadership or domination of one element of a system over others.