SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Class Discrimination, Economic System, Cultural Imperialism
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Influences consumerism: experiments with futurity, always changing. Goals of studying pop culture: question the role of culture in society, critically assess the dominance of certain cultural values and practices (eg american. Identify and assess the implications of cultural practices on diverse groups: think critically about the different approaches to study culture. High culture , cultured , elitism, cultural tradition, classist, colonial: culture: the way of life, art, sport, sex, family, friendship, love, work, leisure includes culture, commercial media, best to think of these together. Culture + globalization: globalization and cultural imperialism, globalization and resistance to cultural imperialism, new cultural forms, result in unequal power between cultural groups. Culture as relational: culture: the production and reproduction of sense, meaning and consciousness (o"brien and szeman) Popularity is measured in terms of consumption (mass media) Is it every day cultural activities (sometimes called folk culture): definition for our class the communicative practices of everyday life (o"brien and.
