From IDA e.V.:
“The term dominant society or dominant culture goes back to the psychologist Birgit Rommelspacher. The term attempts to describe coexistence under multidimensional, multilayered conditions of domination. The dominant society is shaped by a history that has made ruling and being ruled central ordering categories. In contrast to colonial or fascist societies, the division into oppressed and oppressors is not clear-cut but runs along many different lines of difference (woman/man, white/Black, German/non-German, poor/rich, etc.), leading to a blurring of collective identities and insecurity. Moreover, super- and subordination are embedded in norms, notions of normality, and everyday actions. These ambiguities conceal and justify existing inequalities and discriminations, so that the dominant society is unaware (or unwilling to be aware) of its own hierarchies but professes (albeit superficially) equality and equal worth.” 128
The term dominant society or dominant culture is intended to describe the woke view of Western majority society. The concept of intersectionality describes the associated societal ordering categories and power structures. For the sociologist Birgit Rommelspacher, who coined the term, the price of adaptation to the dominant society lies in subordination and self-alienation.129
The term dominant society is meant to illustrate new-left ideas about conflicts.130 Woke activists reject the existing society; instead, they advocate a liberated society. The existing dominant society is contrasted with utopian visions of an inclusive, solidaristic, climate-just, and diverse society.