SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Studies, Sharon Stone, Judith Butler
5 Jun 2018
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Week 3: Introduction Conclusion, Class and Audience
Social Representation
- Social representation:
a) Allows us to classify each other, compare and explain behaviours and to objectify
eah other as a part of our soial settig ie. He/ she doest elog
b) Establishes an order which enables us to locate ourselves in our material and social
worlds
c) Enables communication within a community by providing us with a social exchange,
and for naming and classifying the various aspects of the social world and our (and
others) group history
Representing Class
- Emile Durkheim Collective Representation:
- The proesses of olletie eaig akig resultig i oo uderstadigs hih
produe soial ods uitig soieties, orgaizatios ad groups
- Common ways of conceiving, thinking about and evaluating social reality
- Ex. The initial response when seeing homeless people
3 Types of Representation
1. Hegemonic Representation
- Shared by most of the members of a structured group – Canadians – that are uniform
and prevail as the norm: terrorists are bad
2. Emancipated Representation
- Refers to subgroups that create their own representation with a certain degree of
autonomy with respect to the interacting segments of society: vegans, radical groups
3. Polemic Representation
- Related to social conflicts, struggles btwn groups, and controversies in a society
- Determined by antagonistic relations and intended to be exclusive to that group
- Ex. Communism in a capitalist country, or cultural struggles or debate in restrictive
societies
The Under and Working Class
- Skeggs 2004:
- Pop Culture is marked by a tendency to position the lower classes – economically,
politically and ideologically – as a lass i stagatio
- Coo tropes are used i hih ke eleets are idetified as lass ad or raial
arkers
- Viewed up as excessive, tasteless, with disgust and as a source of humor or mockery
- Ex. Honey Boo Boo
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