Cultural Hegemony And Construction Of Modernity

Stuart hall is a representative of the Birmingham school.This paper mainly discusses hall's thought of cultural leadership,which runs through hall's thought and is influenced by Marxism,Althusser structuralism and Gramsci's thought of cultural leadership.From the analysis of the connotation of cultural leadership,this paper thought background,hall cultural leadership thought hall have maintained their position of Marxism,coding decoding theory is the basis of cultural leadership thought hall,hall,with the aid of Marxist political economics dialectical analysis of coding decoding theory.The mass media is the communication medium of hall's thought of cultural leadership,and the youth subculture is the product of cultural leadership,so as to clarify the main content of hall's thought of cultural leadership.Cultural leadership theory has important role for the study of modernity,hall further to analyze the relationship between cultural leadership and modernity,the modernity is mainly refers to capital and labor relations in a capitalist society,so this article discusses the problem of modernity of hall's cultural leadership,mainly involves the identity,Thatcherism and social three aspects of totality.As a British-born Jamaican,the particularity of his identity made hall pay more attention to the issue of identity.The unfair treatment of black people in the British society made hall want to speak for him.What identity reflects is culture,but also a sense of identity and belonging.As one of the main means of British politics,Thatcherism also attracted hall's attention.A series of policies carried out by the thatcher government also served to consolidate the rule of the British government.Hall absorbed Lukacs' principle of totality,focused on the discussion of cultural totality,and highlighted the function of education.Cultural leadership plays an important role in hall's thought,and its specific connotation changes with the constant change of hall's thought.It is of great significance to study the thought of cultural leadership and modernity.