SOCIOL 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Consumerism, Shampoo, Cultural Hegemony
31 Jan 2017
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Lecture 6-8 critical perspectives in conflict perspective (jan 23-jan 30) Developing a shared conceptual toolkit for tackling the q: what role does culture play in. Weeks 1-2: clarifying what we mean by culture & cultural objects. Introducing classical povs of society: critical conflict approach. A key part of his theory of idea of historical materialism. His analysis is synonymous w conflict pov i. e. conflict pov. Das kapitol been put forward by functionalism economy. Some ppl are positioned as owners of prod while other ppl are not. To look at any aspect of structure and to reveal the interest of economic value & culture toys are coded w. gender norms in them. Shopping = new opium of the ppl. We can see critical theorist/functionaist will take the same thing of religion/ naturalize ppl (culture hegemony) & also distracting us from reality of consumerism would affect culture. Functionalism, conflict theory, & s. i we must be able to move fluidly across these povs.
