ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sorne, Michel Foucault, Sweatshop
31 May 2016
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Popular culture: the culture of everyday life is an aspect of popular culture: it is simply the communicative practices of everyday life. popular culture includes folk and mass culture and the ways which they are intertwined. Also includes the production, consumption, and distinction associated with cultural industries and their dissemination. Culture: the term has a wide and diverse range of meanings and associations that cannot easily be reduced to a single definition. Carries three main significations: a description of a whole way of social life (as in the idea that humanity is comprised. Folk culture: those cultural products and practices that have developed over time within a particular community or socially identifiable group, and that are communicated from generation to generation and amongst people who tend to be known to one another. Mass culture: a form of culture produced for profit by a vertically integrated factory system, for a large and diverse audience.
