Without a doubt, one of the most powerful and dominant groups that we deal with on a daily basis is our government. Hegemony mainly deals with dominant groups exercising control over weaker groups but with no means of force.
A perfect example of Hegemony in our government is the way we handled ourselves with helping out with Haiti. Our government knows that we are much more dominant than the Haitian government so without using force but through extreme pressure, we think that since we came to rescue that we should be making decisions.
Hegemony also takes place in baseball, starting with the commisioner (shown above). The teams in the big markets like the Yankees, Mets, Cubs, Red Sox, Dodgers think they have control over the smaller markets Kansas City, Cleveland, Minnesota.
