SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grammatical Gender, Impression Management, Cultural Practice
24 Jan 2017
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Self [your beliefs and actions] society [material world] Interaction between material culture [technology] and non-material culture [values and norms] Material shifts reconstitute social relations: new norms and values. Value: control of land as power [status] Social hierarchies of slavery and declining value of women"s labour. Culture in contemporary society: making the material connection. Exotic other native savages; carnival, sideshows . 1940s 1950 patriotism: soldiers, sailors, degeneracy and deviant . Middle class respectability of tattooing through its commodification as sexy and cool, not seedy. Symbol selection: adherence to cultural parameters. Avoidance of stigma; enhance desire: sexualized placement; erotic. Bodies are where cultural values are imprinted and performed: women"s tattooed bodies, men"s shredded physiques. Hyper masculine gender performance: embodiment of power, virility, desire. Technology as everywhere in modern world, renders body unnecessary to progress: cultural practice of bodybuilding: to reclaim importance of body. And yet, we are still seeing cultural change.
