SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dick Hebdige

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

Document Summary

Forms of culture that are accessible, widely available, and intended for consumption by as many people as possible. 2 ways such forms of culture can be understood as dominant: the sheer number of people who consume/participate in it, the core set of beliefs, ideas, and identities that are circulated through forms of popular culture. Subcultures and countercultures challenge the values, ideas, and structures of mainstream culture consciously and directly. A cultural construction that regulates our activities through the. (cid:498)mainstream(cid:499) or (cid:498)dominant(cid:499) not so much reality. As threatening and dangerous or as the conscience of the mainstream that is, as the (cid:494)real(cid:495) expression of a culture that is otherwise dominated by (cid:494)bad(cid:495) Subculture + the meaning of style (dick hebdige) Argued that a subculture is a subversion to normalcy. Subcultures can be perceived as negative due to their nature of criticism to the dominant societal standard.