SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Visual Entertainment, Social Fact, Social Inequality
13 Feb 2018
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Draws connections between culture, power and ideology. Hegemony employs a system of coercion and consent in order to create a passivity in the people. We then become complicit, participatory within dominant culture and dominant ideology. The ideolog(cid:455) is ofte(cid:374) (cid:373)ade to (cid:862)see(cid:373) (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)al o(cid:396) (cid:396)atio(cid:374)al(cid:863) It can take shape through politics, gender, race, globalization, etc. Sees the world as stable and orderly. It identifies the various structures of society (e. g. the family), and describes the functions the structure performs to maintain the entire social system. Our behavior is governed by relatively stable social relations or structures which rest upon shared values or preferences. It was developed prior to and separate from you as an individual. It can be seen as a characteristic of a particular group. It involves a constraining or coercing force that pushes individuals into acting in a particular way. The visual entertainment of image moving or still in pop culture promotes a fascination with meaning systems.
