SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Verstehen, Mass Media, Bourgeoisie

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Culture is important helps close circle from beginning. Culture as a set of ideas that help us run our lives. Culture shaped by society in which it is developped. Can be seen as one of the 1st post modernist thinker. Emphasizes human kind tends to be lazy we tend to follow the heard. As we began to indusrialize it created a new era of. Higher culture those who want to fully capitalize on their live develop all their potential but we don"t usally do this we follow the heard. Concerned about nature of cultur if humans could use educational experience they could broaden their horizions and be able to position themselves as leaders within as society. Leavis and denys thompson, culture and environment (1933) Now in 20th century between word war 1 and 2. Use of literacy focuses on working class in post modern period.