State and Social Policies: Bourgeois hegemony and contemporary forms of domination

Authors

  • Ivete Simionatto UFSC - Florianópolis - SC
  • Carolina Rodrigues Costa UFSC - Florianópolis - SC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1414-49802014000100007

Abstract

Based on theoretical research, the article reconstructs the categories of hegemony, private apparatuses of hegemony and ideology in the work of Antonio Gramsci, especially in the Prison Notebooks, using them to analyze, by means of documental research, current ideological strategies of the dominant classes for the strengthening of their hegemony, the refunctionalization of the state and execution of social policies. The main conclusions reveal how Brazil’sWorking Party (PT) governments have been supported by a set of beliefs and values emanating from neoliberal ideology, and have maintained their hegemony through a consensus of the subaltern classes and support from the bourgeois class.

Author Biographies

Ivete Simionatto, UFSC - Florianópolis - SC

Pós-Doutorado no European University Institute (EUI), Itália. Doutora em Serviço Social pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP). Professora no Curso de Serviço Social e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social (PPGSS), na
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC).

Carolina Rodrigues Costa, UFSC - Florianópolis - SC

Mestranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social da UFSC.

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Published

2014-06-02

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2014): Estado e Política Social na América Latina

Section

Thematic space

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