Hegemony stands as the domination or influence of a state over its allies. In political terms, it stands as the possession of sole authority over the other political parties or simply supremacy. Or it can be the tendency of a cultural resource come into a consensus and support a dominant ideology.
In most cases dominant ideology are considered hegemonic in the sense that a large class of persons hold their views in favour to the ideology. The society has its views on certain issues, views so ingrained that they have become conventions. The hegemony dominant ideology resides with the masses. The masses hold these views to the extent that any significant controversy will not change their way of thought whatsoever.
The dominant thought or ideology comes in various ways. Mostly they come about when the society has held certain views for quite a long time without anyone coming up a new notion to counter that which is already rooted deeply within the minds of the masses. Politics comes out as the major factor in the domineering ideologies. Most people hold certain ideas or notions about certain political parties that they would otherwise not go.
Dominant ideologies have been passed down generations by the aid of written literature. When these ideologies become obsolete with time, revolutions arise. These revolutions bring about new ideologies that a majority of the people at that time accept and hold as the truth.
At times this hegemony might not be the real thing but since they are held by so many people, they in turn come to be the accepted truth that never was. The ideologies that people hold should stand to challenge and if there is not enough evidence to support them then they ought to be done away with.
