SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Symbolic Interactionism, Culture Industry, Max Horkheimer

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Importance of accommodation and tolerance: support for diversity, compassion and generosity, attachment to canada"s natural beauty, commitment to freedom, peace and non-violent change, multiculturalism as social policy. Functionalism: culture plays a part in helping people to meet needs . Cultural universals which help a society function . There are collective benefits to cultural universals (functionalists ignore the tensions that might be present) Conflict theory: views society based on tension and conflict over scarce resources . Those who hold power define and perpetuate a cultures ideology. Post- marxists bourdieu- distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste people learn to consume culture and this type of learning (which occurs the length of our lives) is mediated and differentiated by social class. Said: culture and imperialism producers of high culture are revered and these cultural products become a method for internalizing the messages of imperialism. The frankfurt social theorists (theodor adomo, max horkheimer, herbert.