Andrew Jackson's Firsts. Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States, but he was the first in many other ways. Introduction. Born in poverty, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician by 1812, when war broke out between the United States and Britain.
Pulling the word apart, hegemony can be loosely defined as a sort of process which acts to maintain the dominance of a culture within a particular context. Further, masculinity is the characteristics correlated with being male.
The power of cultural hegemony lies in its invisibility. Unlike a soldier with a gun or a political system backed up by a written constitution, culture resides within us. It doesnât seem âpolitical,â itâs just what we like, or what we think is beautiful, or what feels comfortable.