POWER CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY

SOCIAL RANKING IN SOCIETY IS AN EXTENSION OF CULTURAL GROUP INTERACTION, EMBEDDED AND ENFORCED BY POWER, AND JUSTIFIED BY IDEOLOGY.

1) CULTURE – [1] IS ESSENTIAL FOR OUR INDIVIDUAL SURVIVAL {CONTRIBUTE TO HUMAN SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL SURVIVAL}; [2] IT PROVIDES THE RULES THAT GUIDE HUMAN BEHAVIOR {NORMS == “NORMATIVE SYSTEMS”} == IT ACCOUNTS FOR PATTERN REGULARITIES OF THOUGHT AND IDEAS {BELIEFS è “BELIEF SYSTEMS”}, [3] PROVIDES A STANDARD FOR RIGHT OR WRONG {VALUES è “VALUE SYSTEMS”}

2) POWER – IS THE ABILITY TO MAKE OTHERS DO WHAT YOU WISH THEM TO DO, WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT == A SYSTEM OF DOMINATION è [1] THROUGH THE EXERCISE OF PHYSICAL COERCION; AND [2] TROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES]]]

3) IDEOLOGY – A COMPLEX OF IDEAS THAT ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN, JUSTIFY, LEGITIMIZE, AND PERPETUATE A SPECIFIC SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES è IDEAS AND VALUES THAT REINFORCE THE INTERESTS OF THE DOMINANT GROUP WHILE UNDERMINING THE INTEREST OF SUBORDINATE GROUPS]]]