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A much finer job on the blogs, nice work.

For Wednesday, read the Raymond Williams excerpt in your book, thinking about it in relationship to our discussion thus far.

For your Wednesday blog, however, simply describe a 'real world' example of how the dominant culture may attain/coerce the 'spontaneous consent' of the rest of the culture, based on what you understand of Gramsci's concept of Hegemony. Look back over the reading for Monday to clarify that definition (a number of the blogs are pretty well off) and think about how our consent or the consent of the lower classes might be achieved. Or, to perhaps help you think about it another way: where is there an illusion of choice which helps to cover the fact that we (or the lower classes, if you'd rather think that way) are generally without options for change?