SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Culture Jamming, Asexuality, Buy Nothing Day
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Popular culture november 12th & 13th lecture notes. * streams of culture are always relative and relational, not absolute notions; as things become mainstream, we can"t call them sub or countercultures anymore (ex. fashion) * dominant sets of core beliefs, ideas, identities, etc circulated in popular culture. * given the breadth of the mainstream, elements of it are critiqued from within; mainstream isn"t homogenous but dominant conventional things. * politically, this discourse of debate is limiting because it proposes difference in ideas that are not radically different. * no simple distinction between subcultures and countercultures; mostly mixed traits. * both are engaged in the struggle to create new and different forms of social reality. * both take culture seriously as a site of authenticity, personal, ethical or political expression and as a mean to articulate new ways of being and living; sense of what one stands for (counterculture more political, subculture more personal)
