SOCI 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Retail Therapy, Market Failure, Imperfect Competition
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How we come to be as social beings. A group of ideas and understandings about a topic that"s communicated through language, it is composed of signs (sign=signifier+signified) and are complex signs themselves. Ex. america, man, professional, market, sexuality, god, morality, love. An entire discourse or part of one - a word, phrase, or idea that seems to self-replicate through society. All are a part of discourse of consumer society. A blank human space that is populated by discourses and/or memes. Seems to be an entity of its own. You are a machine for memes - a blank space whose purpose is to propagate memes and discourses. It is the memes and discourses that are actually in control. People usually mistake their subjectivity for their self". The social and technical systems through which we communicate and organize our communication. In capitalist societies, culture is largely produced in cultural industries".
