RELS 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Art Music, Liminality, Ethology

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 161
• Professor: Ian Alexander Cuthbertson

Document Summary

Study guide ethology- study of animal behavior- lec/ chapter 1+2. Nye"s 8 ways of looking at rituals. Diff between popular culture and mass culture. Has a range of common meanings and uses. A site of resistence against the hierarchy that elit culture promotes. What people do, that which is commonly done. It is popular, trendy, widespread pop culture references- memes popular tv, films, books, etc these often have aprice tage attached popular bc they are bestsellers commercialism can negatively affect value (cultural not commercial) Nye distinguishes pop culture from mass culture mass culture=consumer culture that is mass concern mass culture would replace local cultures collective consumption/use of mass culture constitutes popular culture questions of suthenticity arise. Valued or performed by general populace not only what is widely valued/practiced star trek conventions vs ventriiquiat conventions in this view everything is pop culture. Dominant culture is sometimes challenged by sub cultures. Expressions of religion vary depending on cultural context.