SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nancy Chodorow, Oedipus Complex, Guy Debord
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Facebook, you tube, twitter (5, 33, 62, 69) Fandom and culture jamming (7, 21, 48, 67) Encoding refers to how meanings are produced: technical infrastructure, relations of production, there one more insert here: three ways of reading texts, dominant reading/preferred reading: accept the meaning exactly as it"s been encoded, oppositional reading, negotiated reading. Reading the romance (chapter 7: ethnographic study, reasons for reading romance, escapism, a temporary declaration of independence (p. 61) Reading dawson"s creek & friends (chapter 48: cultural hybridity, young women"s bodies. Parents" readings as dominant: young women"s readings as negotiated. Popular culture as a site for identity production. Asian stories are embodies by white actors without even hinting at the erasure that is occurring, as if whiteness can stand in for all racial difference (p. 639): casting non-white characters with white actors, repositions whiteness as neutral. Post-racial thinking: akin to post-feminism, re-centers whiteness. Situationist international: began in 1960s france, may, 1968, paris.