CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tim Hortons, Conspicuous Consumption, Public Sphere

• School: Brock University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANA 1F91
• Professor: Renee Lafferty- Salhany

Document Summary

Lecture 3 canadian studies january 24, 2017. Cultural relativism (multiculturalism vs. assimilation)compare assimilation and cultural relativism. Consumer citizen: how you act as a citizen through your consumption (consuming images of. Exam: ability to link concepts from week 1 to this week All examples of commercial cultural (banal nationalism) Private sphere public sphere official government world (police, courts, authority) Not as important as public things that matter to you in your private life) Public sphere is when private opinions come together. Intermediate space between the private realm and the gov realm. Where we form opinions of who we are, collectively related to the collective feelings of the population there are things we cannot control, public authority. Consumer citizen selling version of something they think you want. Purchasing from a series of options the gov is exactly like the media, they want the largest population possible.