And a city's populace does more than simply "buy" bourgeois-produced order. Through their beliefs and understandings and through their actions, however unwitting, they reinforce and sustain it.

XREF: Connects to Gramsci's concept of cultural hegemony — how dominant social orders persist through consent rather than coercion.

XREF: Connects to Gramsci's notion of cultural hegemony — order maintained not by force but by the everyday consent and participation of the governed.

Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order a…, loc. 531