SOCI 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Culture Jamming, Media Imperialism, Product Placement

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1005
• Professor: Christian Pasiak

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Criticisms of cultural imperialism: ethnocentrism: (cid:862)the te(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) for people to judge other (cid:272)ultures e(cid:454)(cid:272)lusi(cid:448)el(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:455) the sta(cid:374)dards of their o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:272)ulture(cid:863) Canadian culture: postmodernism: typified by eclectic mixtures of elements, the erosion of traditional categories and institutions; challenges the notion of a central, normative core; engages/in tension with the culture of modernity. American way of life: many canadians are still proud of the alternative canadian policy of encouraging immigrants and their descendants to maintain important aspects of their ancestral (cid:272)ultures (cid:894)for(cid:373)i(cid:374)g a (cid:862)cultural mosaic(cid:863) or (cid:862)(cid:373)i(cid:454)ed salad(cid:863)(cid:895) History of canadian culturalism: until rece(cid:374)t (cid:455)ears, edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) had spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272)all(cid:455) fo(cid:272)used o(cid:374) (cid:862)(cid:272)harter groups(cid:863) (cid:894)e. g. histories involving people of french and british origin), with the histories of more recent immigrant groups, m tis, first nations and inuit peoples excluded. Power, identity and cultural capital: cultural capital: (cid:862)(cid:271)eliefs, tastes, (cid:374)or(cid:373)s, a(cid:374)d (cid:448)alues that people dra(cid:449) upo(cid:374) i(cid:374) e(cid:448)er(cid:455)da(cid:455) life(cid:863) In distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste (1979), sociologist pierre.