SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Arab Spring, Culture Jamming, Christian Culture
15 Jul 2016
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Streams of culture are always relative and relational (not absolute notions: dependent on the time and cultural setting, what might be mainstream at one point in time might not be mainstream at another time. It might fade out in some sense. Mainstream refers to two features: prevalence/popularity of users or audience. I. e. out of everyone with laptops in the class, macbook"s are the most popular: dominant sets of core beliefs, ideas, identities etc. circulated in. Part of popular culture are really inflicted by mainstream popular culture. Dominant idea/identity of popular culture: girls toning their body. Go into stores and there"s a separate section for workout clothing for females, many instagram accounts of squat challenges. Given the breadth of the mainstream, elements of it are critiqued from within: i. e. Christian culture: critiques within the center of culture. Politically, this discourse of debate is limiting because it highlights small differences in ideas that are not radically different.
