SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Symbolic Interactionism, George Herbert Mead, Universal Health Care

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

A group of ideas made normal and natural by the dominant class. Dominant culture: those in power, for example, the mainstream, Karl marx: ideology becomes natural enough to the point of invisibility, a manipulation conducted by dominant culture. Draws connections between culture, power and ideology. Hegemony employs a system of coercion and consent in order to create a passivity in the people. Coerced into paying taxes and giving consent to accepting universal healthcare (the idea becomes normalized) We then become complicit, participatory within dominant culture and dominant ideology. The ideology is often made to seem normal or rational . It can take shape through politics, gender race globalization etc. Sees the world as stable and orderly. It identifies the various structures of society (e. g. the family) and describes the functions the structure performs to maintain the entire social system. Our behavior is governed by relatively stable social relations or structures which rest upon shared values or preferences.