SOC 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Henri Lefebvre, Neoliberalism, Les Automatistes
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Two ways in measuring mass/dominant culture: 1) number of people tuned into it, 2) the core set of beliefs, ideas, and identities through it. The mainstream establishes powerful cultural norms: but, not everything is purely mainstream. Mainstream is real patterns of social behaviours present within societies that guide both individual and group activity. Subcultures/countercultures oppose dominant structures that are limiting: they want to create new social reality, attack on pop culture creates new pop culture, goes into mainstream, etc. Minority-majority relationships: they oppose a minority group to the majority. Subcultures offers new cultures and opposes the limits of the majority; not having a hobby: both are antagonistic; differences b/w them: 1) how they are antagonistic toward the mainstream. 2) new forms in replace of mainstream: relationship b/w these groups and pop culture: 2) politics of subcultures: less explicitly political than counterculture. 3) practices of contemporary activist and countercultural groups: use new communication technologies, the internet.
