SOC 202 Lecture 2: Week 2.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Nicole Neverson

Document Summary

Many different ways to define popular culture, based on 2 perspective, political and economic content. Ie: theatre/ opera private school university expensive restaurants. What is not accessible to the people/ general public. Only for the elite tend to have more economical. Primary force is making profit for the owners. Taints peer culture because the elite only cares to make money. How they relate to the content in which is produced and the practices involved in producing that content. The study of the social relations, particularly the power relations, that mutually constitute the production, distribution, and consumption of resources (mosco, 1996, p. Ownership and control: within the mass media patterns of ownership and control influence content and the consumption choices that we have beyond the mass media. Lines between products and services become blurred in the communications and media industry, what happens when media products, content and services intercept value of economics versus culture.