Discussion questions for the film about New Zealand Economist Marilyn.docx
1. Discussion questions for the film about New Zealand Economist Marilyn
Discussion questions for the film about New Zealand Economist Marilyn WaringHegemony
is the ability of the dominant class to project its own way of seeing the world so that those
who are subordinated by it accept it as ‘common sense’ and ‘natural’. Common sense,
suggests social scientist Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, is “the way a subordinate class lives its
subordination.”Radical Critique (according to Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu) is probably
the only means that people have of confronting hegemony. Radical critique involves taking
apart or questioning common sense or the things that people take for granted and believe
are ‘natural’.In the film: https://csula-
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0Global%20Economics.mp4?csf=1&web=1&e=926LAd1. What examples of hegemony does
economist Marilyn Waring identify?2. What are examples in the film of confronting
hegemony, or of radical critique?
