ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mcdonaldization, Radiohead, Postmodern Music
2 Nov 2017
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Culture: includes both material objects and ideas (ex. superstitious beliefs, cultural universals (ex. dance. gift giving, cultural surprised when travelling (ex. gelato example, norms: generally accepted ways of doing things. Globalization: political interconnectedness (ex. un, economic interconnectedness (ex. Ritzer"s mcdonaldization thesis: features of the mcdonal"s business empire are apparent in many other organizations (beyond fast food and retail, ef ciency- fast and effective, calculability, predictability- no room for creativity, standardized, control of customers and workers. Postmodernism: postmodernism has impacted sociology and many other academic disciplines, it has also impacted elds such as music, architecture, art, and literature, re ects broad range of projects, advocate against singular theories- no singular theory, truth. Rather knowledge and turret is situation speci c uid, and contested: truth is shaped and reshaped through discourse, discourse is knowledge and how information is constructed and communicated (ex. academic, political, medical discourse) Truth often re ects power relations as those with power can shape and reshape discourse.
