Thursday, November 3, 2022 4:30 PM EDT
Merten Hall, #1203
Join us in person or via Zoom for the next event in our Fall 2022 Colloquium Series with Vivek Chibber!
One of the most influential arguments explaining the stability of capitalism comes from the cultural theory. On this view, elite dominance is secured through the power of ideology, which socializes subordinate groups into offering their consent to the ruling order. I offer an alternative, two-pronged theory, which suggests, first, that consent rests on material interests, not on ideology; and second, that consent is secondary to resignation as a source of capitalist stability.
Vivek Chibber is Professor of Sociology at NYU. He edits Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and his most recent book is The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn (Cambridge, 2022).
