SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Siamese Cat, Sexualization, Eurocentrism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1F90
• Professor: Kathy Deliovsky

Document Summary

Elements of culture: symbols, language, values, norms (laws, sanctions) Disney controls so much media, it is hard to mediate the images. Disney monopolized the market of how they can be seen publically. Images can shape what we know and what we see in our worlds. We develop our understandings from cultural institutions around us. Disney wraps up caricatures of gender roles. Disney must change their themes as time changes (eg. ariel claims freedom from father, milan almost single-handedly wins) Stereotypes: latino characters are chihuahuas and does something they shouldn"t; black people are shown as animals who are almost like men (gorillas, apes, crows); the white man tames the animals and the natives (eg. tarzan); Asian characters are shown with stereotypical physical features and are cunning (eg. siamese cats in lady and the tramp); chinese women are taught to be valued with marriage not real in china, but they are displayed as oppressive;