Gramsci

Question 1

Key question / focus

Answer 1

How do power and consent work through institutions and everyday life?

Question 2

How “truth” / scientific knowledge is framed

Answer 2

“Truth/common sense” is linked to maintaining or contesting hegemony; change can be incremental (“march through the institutions”)

Question 3

Key principle(s) / mechanism

Answer 3

Institutional struggle and gradual transformation; dividing “true science” vs “agenda science” as a political tactic

Question 4

Example scenario (science/knowledge)

Answer 4

Long-term reshaping of universities/media to redefine what counts as “legitimate knowledge”

Question 4

Named anchors in slides

Answer 4

Slides reference Gramsci in relation to a strategy described as “March through the institutions” and tactics of discrediting disciplines/people, etc.

Question 4

Opposing / contrasting thinking (in this course-typology)

Answer 4

Contrasts with Merton (science guided by CUDOS norms rather than political struggle)

Question 5

How this position would explain “not sitting down in the waiting room”

Answer 5

“Not sitting” would be read as a small, everyday bodily act that sits inside (and potentially reproduces/resists) a broader institutional order of “how to behave” in bureaucratic/medical spaces—i.e., consent and normalisation operate through mundane practices in institutions.