SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Culture Industry, Folklore, Frankfurt School

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Rebecca Lock

Document Summary

Democratic type (what people vote for, get) Googling something has almost become a routine and a lifestyle. Course objectives: to develop a critical vocabulary to discuss popular culture, to become familiar with methods of analyzing popular culture. Why consider the history of popular culture: where does our present day popular culture come from? (ex. Art, photography: how and which historical conditions constitute popular culture, what social functions does popular culture have and in whose interests are these functions, moral function, consumerism function. Ideology is a process, not a static thing, unfolds over time: beliefs and values that bind individuals together and become naturalized; people connect through this. Pre-industrial (middle ages- 16th century) forms of recreation: ex. Cheese ball race in glosterchire, england: ex. It is about actively seeking willing co-operation of subordinate groups (rather than tricks them: there is some degree of awareness of what is going on, hegemony is a constant struggle between groups and oppositional unconsciousness.