CSCT 1CS3 Lecture Notes - Semiotics, List Of Fables Characters, Dick Hebdige

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 1CS3
• Professor: Helene Strauss

Document Summary

Goths (ways of speaking, dressing, patterns of behaviour) Subcultures are groups that challenge and/or resist the values, lifestyles, beliefs and ideas of the dominant, majority culture. Minority [*not all minorities take up an antagonistic opposition to dominant culture*] Draws attention to limitation of dominant culture. No one is purely mainstream, not even the characters on friends (pc 259) Subcultures resist the mainstream in more direct or extreme ways than minor ways found in a show like friends. General patterns are enforced through mainstream culture. Engaged in struggle to create new and different forms of social reality (pc 259: revise and recraft society. Frequently associated with young people but also can be applied more broadly: ex/ nudism/naturalism. Subculture frequently articulated through: dress styles and other forms of bodily semiotics, punk. Archetypal, visible by how regular style is challenged (ex/ hairstyles, dog collars: body building. Bondage, sadomasochism: nudism/naturalism, patterns of behaviour and unconventional attitudes, vampire lifestyle.