KNPE 167 Study Guide - Final Guide: Low Culture, Reality Television, High Culture
1 Dec 2015
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Has the power to change the world: unite people, more powerful than governments, laughs in the face of all types of discrimination, nelson mandela. Sport = more dysfunctional than functional to the social order: dramatizes social conflict, giulianotti. The study of social life, including all forms of interactions and relationships. Sociological imagination: the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and wider society, intersection of history and biography. A collection of people living in a defined geographical territory united by: Culture: common political system, shared sense of identity, idea of we or us. The ways of life people create as they participate in a group or society: socially created ways of thinking, feeling and acting (norms, never constant, always changing and complex, often the site of conflict or struggle. High: linked to civilized" activity, arts, philosophy, intellectual" work. Low (popular culture: most sports, reality tv, gossip magazines, low culture as distraction.
