Abstract
Hegemony is defined as a condition under which a group establishes its supremacy not only by physical force but also through a consensual submission of the people who are dominated. This study aims to describe how “Sameness” is represented as a form of hegemony to create utopian society in The Giver and to describe the kinds of hegemony found in the novel. The methodology used in this study was descriptive-qualitative. By using sociological approach, this study analyzed the novel from the point of view of hegemony, a theory developed by Antonio Gramsci. There were two objects of the study, namely material object which was The Giver novel and formal object taken from the analysis of the novel using theory of hegemony. The results of this study show that system of “Sameness” is represented as a form of hegemony to create utopian society, seen from the episode of climate control which is created to avoid unpredictable weather, episode of family unit to control the populations of the community by regulating some procedures and rituals, episode of assignments by observing each of the citizens’ interest through volunteer hours and recreation time, episode of precision of language and attitude to keep good communication and behavior; episode of no individual choices, episode of artificial sense which limit the vision, audio, and feeling after the removal of memory, and episode of punishments for rule breakers. There are three kinds of hegemony found in the novel based on the level of domination and resistance, namely Integral hegemony which is seen from the full obedience of the citizens towards the authority of the Committee of Elders, Decadent hegemony which is depicted by the citizens’ disrespect and boredom towards the rules, and Minimal hegemony which happens due to the the resistance from the Receiver of Memory against the Committee of Elders despite the transformismo.
 
 Keywords: Sameness; Hegemony; Utopian society
Highlights
Hegemony is defined as a condition under which a group establishes its supremacy by physical force and through a consensual submission of the people who are dominated
The Giver tells about a society who name themselves as ‘the Community.’. It consists of two classes, namely the Committee of Elders as the dominant class and the Citizens as the subordinate class
The community lives in a system called “Sameness.”
Summary
Hegemony is defined as a condition under which a group establishes its supremacy by physical force and through a consensual submission of the people who are dominated. Society consists of all the groups which the Gramsci states that politics and individuals within it are members It is made up culture play important roles in which power is population, organization, time, place, and exercised and hegemony established by including interest. Which they can implement their function as a According to Gramsci in Maitra (2008: 455), social human They have to communicate each Integral State emerges as a form of political and other in order to keep social relationship run well. In order to make the social relationship run through society’s superstructure It proves that well, there should be rules and regulation to hegemony the use of institutions and culture manage the society. As stated by McLeod (2016), who should obey the rules
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