ENGLISH 1CS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gentrification, Roland Barthes, Cultural Imperialism
24 Feb 2015
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Consumption- refers to the things to the things we buy (or watch, or listen to) Popular culture- in terms not of consumption but production: popular is what the people make, or do, for themselves. Culture is as the practices of everyday life. It tends to be seen as the direct expression of the life experiences shared by its creators and their audience. Marxism- a wide range of political and cultural philosophies that draw their inspiration from the work of karl marx. Marxist approaches to society and culture emphasize the primacy of economic relations and structures in determining all other social activity. In particular, marxism emphasizes the exploitative foundations of capitalist systems of economics. The notion of ideology arises out of the marxist tradition as a way to account for how the dominant economic class controls production and distribution of ideas in society.
