SOCIOL 3NN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dependent And Independent Variables, Funhouse
2 Mar 2020
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Learning outcomes: describe the reflection perspective on the relationship between art and society, describe the production perspective on the relationship between art and society, recognize how the study of a cultural object reveals broader social processes. Start-up: what is the relationship between art/culture and society, two main approaches by which we can answer this question, 1. The reflection approach: based on the idea that culture reflects society, 2. Shouldn"t be too na ve or careless in thinking that cultural objects are evidence : cultural artefact in question (literary novel) isn"t a direct mirror of the. Instead of it being a perfectly accurate reflection, it"s a funhouse mirror objects (novels, music, tv) aren"t translations of social reality: 2. Look[ing] at how the interaction of milieus" in which cultural products are. Created, distributed, evaluated, and consumed" shapes content of culture (peterson, 1997) Study strengths and weakness of the production approach: benefits, 1.
