SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pierre Bourdieu, Eva Air, High Culture
5 Oct 2016
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Anthropology the way of life of a people. Humanities high culture the best that has been thought and known : high culture fine arts (opera, ballet, symphony, painting, theatre, pop culture music that is not operatic, movies, youtube videos. Sociology convergence of these two extremes. Society culture symbol systems symbols. Symbol systems: represent thinking, feeling, behaviour (smaller symbols: hug represents affection. Symbols: things that represent something else (communicate meaning: mother social status, beads prayer, shamrock luck/irish, cross christianity. Cultural objects have meaning beyond their material reality: examples, dogs companionship, loyalty, service dogs, protection, food, pollution, tattoos historically (sailor, biker, ex-convict, military), now it"s symbolism. Behaviours take on particular meanings in particular social contexts. Cultural sociology describes and analyses these systems of meaning. Humanities perspective: culture is autonomous from society. Sociology: culture is influence by social factors, link between culture and society. Institutions rely on each other to meet needs. Idealize or sensationalize aspects of social experience.
