Pre Class Hebdige

I thought Dick Hebdige's readings were very interesting and fairly easy to relate to. I have found many of the readings difficult to understand, but this one seemed to make the most sense. I thought one of the most interesting sections was the Ideology: A Lived Relation. Within this section he discussed "false consciousness" He states that Althusser says, "Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness'... It is profoundly unconsciousness. " I though that was interesting because I never thought of it that way, but it is completely true. People have a sense of false consciousness when they listen to others or to the media. If people thought on their own and did not give into what the media or higher class was saying then they would not have that sense of false consciousness. Althusser says it is profoundly unconsciousness because people are not taking action. By listening to what the media and higher class says people are "unconscious " because they are not believing in what they want to believe in themselves. The section following the Ideology section is Hegemony: The Moving Equilibrium. In this section he discusses how the higher class creates hegemony. Beliefs should not be based on what type of class you are in, but because people are "unconscious" it turns out this way.