SOC 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Postcolonialism, Culture Industry, F. R. Leavis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Rebecca Lock

Document Summary

Capital c culture: high-end creative productions (opera, ballet and shakespeare). These over time (they are often associated with the past) assumed an especially privileged place in the collection of ideas and artifacts that comprise a cultural tradition. Whole way of life of a society or a distinct subsection of society: along with art, it encompasses everyday rituals such as meals, work, religious observances, sports, sex, family, and friendship. Mass media falls outside the definitions of culture centered around elite artistic production or the practices of ordinary everyday life; they also are frequently cited as the thing that threatens to destroy culture in both these senses. Key concepts in communication and cultural studies, describes culture as the social production and reproduction of sense, meaning and consciousness. The sphere of meaning, which unifies the spheres of production (economics) and social relations (politics) .