SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Do The Right Thing, Dominant Culture, Socalled
21 Jul 2016
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It provides something enjoyable, or pleasurable, that holds our attention. Film, television, social media, pornography, fashion, music, etc . For pop culture to entertain us, we seek out or allow ourselves to be immersed in a leisure experience. In this instance, the experience is primarily pleasurable, one of enjoyment, entertainment, fantasy and indulgence. Such a leisure experience is free of the everyday pressures of life. An escape from the mundane and an immersion within the pleasurable or. There have been numerous attempts to define leisure . Most associate it with freedom, fun, choice and life-satisfaction but it can also be more complex. For example, class or economic issues influence our popular culture experience. Like utopia, leisure is then a place on the map of the social experience that can seduce and eludes us. Leisure then includes social conditions such as access, class and acceptability.
