Question 5

5. The urinal game tests to see how well you understand men’s bathroom etiquette Ideology is looking at the world in terms of common sense, or the construction of common sense. Hegemony is the construction and sustaining of an ideology. It is the idea that the ruling class, race, etc. can become the cultural norm. The ideology in the urinal game is deciding which urinal to use; it is assumed that everyone knows where to properly urinate when there are other people in the restroom. The game relates to hegemony because it sustains the ideology of needing to leave “buffer space” between urinals.