Fatma Imalia Arifa , 2211412067 (2017) Science and Knowledge as Tools of Hegemony in Dystopian Society Reflected in Roth’s Divergent. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This study is conducted to investigate the hegemony in the society of future Chicago. The topic of the study is Science and Knowledge as Tools of Hegemony in Dystopian Society as Reflected in Roth’s Divergent. The objective of the study is to describe the use of science and knowledge as tools of hegemony in dystopian society as reflected in Roth’s Divergent. This study is descriptive qualitative analysis because the data was in the form of the words, phrases, clauses, sentences and pharagraphs. The primary data of this study were taken from Roths’s Divergent and the secondary data were taken from books, journals, and online articles. Then, the procedure of collecting data were done by reading, identifying, inventorying, interpreting, reporting and discussing. In conducting the study, sociological approach was used especially Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to reveal the use of science and knowledge in conducting hegemony control in the society of future Chicago as reflected in Roth’s Divergent. This study results in findings that the society in the future Chicago believed that living in faction system is the best choices to avoid the conflict. In fact, living in the faction system means living in the clearer differentiation which triger the envy of the people and lead them to have conflicts. Then, the hegemony is unconsciously appears in the life of human in the form of ideology or ideas in a form of norms and customs which rules the society. They lived inside the people’s mind. In addition, hegemony control exist for the powerful toward the powerless. The powerful plants ideologies or ideas inside the members’ mind. Erudite uses their ability in science to ease the way to do hegemony control toward other factions, especially the Abnegation. Erudite also uses the Dauntless as the army which can execute the plan of the Erudite in overthrow the Abnegation.

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