HEGEMONY CULTURAL FORCE

Hegemony as Cultural Force

Hegemony as Cultural Force

Cultural identities are crucial in understanding the differences between law in the books and law in practice, since an understanding of how people with various cultural identities conceive of law can aid in comprehending how they are going to practice law. Hence, current research focuses not merely on the dilemma of how law reflects and is being reflected through various identities, but also on how law is actually constituted through the practices of cultural identities (Laclau, 2001).

A critical role is played in particular by the organic intellectuals, who perform the task of ...