SOC 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dominant Culture, Social Mobility, Jeremy Lin
9 Mar 2018
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Conservatism in hockey, humble, quiet, classy , canadian. Walking into a liquor store, in a mall, restaurant. Personal life is made political through his personal demonstration of politics. Insulated conformity people within the same community have an unspoken understanding with which outsiders do not comprehend. Power of mobility - ie: moving out of that small town you grew up in. Dominant culture: set by people of power, mainstream, capitalists, the wealthy. Draws a connection between culture, power and ideology. Employs a system of coercion and consent in order to create a passivity in the. There"s ideas in sport culture and those ideas are protected by hegemony, you don"t. Step out of that language, or way of acting, etc. Suggest that participation in sports teach us skills to operate and negotiate in the real world/ society. Those with power and in uence often prefer it because it emphasizes stability and equilibrium in society. Sees nationalism as privilege, a myth, imaginative.
