Based on theoretical research, the article reconstructs the categories of hegemony, private apparatuses of hegemony and ideology in the work of Antonio Gramsci, especially in the Prison Notebooks, using them to analyze, by means of documental research, current ideological strategies of the dominant classes for the strengthening of their hegemony, the refunctionalization of the state and execution of social policies. The main conclusions reveal how Brazil's Working Party (PT) governments have been supported by a set of beliefs and values emanating from neoliberal ideology, and have maintained their hegemony through a consensus of the subaltern classes and support from the bourgeois class.
Hegemony; Apparatus of hegemony; Ideology; Social policies