SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Berger, Good Will Hunting, Mark Crispin Miller
19 Oct 2017
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Functionalist perspective on gender inequality - male: father, Expressive role, inside the family, women bear the children and nurse them. A way of life we envy and want to posses. Advertisements are such a big part in our lives that we see them in our dreams . Offer us the illusion that if we keep consuming we will become what we want. Capitalism through the use of ads keeps us in a dream state, keeps us from the reality of what"s really happening. The pursuit of individual happiness is achieved through consumption. We are living in a contradiction of what we are, and what we want to be. to be conscious of this contradiction you have consciousness, if not you remain unconscious (like living in a day dream). What"s a smart boy like you doing in a class like this? : intelligence and class in good will hunting. Beautiful ever after: extreme makeover" and the spectacle of rebirth.
