ENG 888 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Critical Thinking, Downton Abbey
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Ideology: a system of beliefs or theories, usually political, held by an individual or group. Capitalism, communism, and socialism, are usually called ideologies. It relays, reproduces, processes, packages, and focuses ideology. Hegemony vs. coercion: two analytically distinct processes through which ruling classes secure the consent of the dominated. But end of the day tv will take some elements of arguments but nothing will really change format and formula sitcoms: stock characters encounter new version of stock situation. Sitcoms still do this the stubbornness of social change can"t be penetrated by social world. We can change minor things that makes you think you have all this consumer choice. But really it"s just variations of traditional genres. Message: way to understand things is by storing up statistics and tracing their trajectories. This is training in observation without comprehension. Vietnam war: show death stats for americans, and then vietnamese. A certain position on a particular issue .
