SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sodo, Social Inequality, Media Culture

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Bellin

Document Summary

High culture opera, going to ballet, sports cars, rolex (things that have status, products we associate with value or class) Attitude that the acquisition of material possessions leads to happiness. Can include: objects, activities, ideas, personalities widespread. Fashions: often originates as a fad, but become more. Politics of consumer culture: cultural elites usually control. Fads and fashions in popular culture tend to emerge high culture from groups on the margins. Socialization or how i become a member of society. Feral children children who have survived with little or no human contact, wild children, exhibit a complete lack of humanness . Most cannot walk on two legs, communicate, use a toilet, etc. Exhibit no sense of self whatsoever and show no interest in other humans: so do humans have instincts?". Socialization the process by which you learn how to become a functioning member of society. Internalizing the values, beliefs and norms of a given society.