CMNS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Angela Mcrobbie, Riot Grrrl, Ulrich Beck

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 221
• Professor: Stuart Poyntz

Document Summary

Leads to studies of how media texts represent or shape reality. Also leads to intensive study of sub-cultures and the development of sub-cultural theory. Iniially (1970s, early 1980s), sub-cultures were meant to describe collecive pracices of cultural insubordinaion (culture is not just a relecion of economic life, culture has real and signiicant impact on our lives. This efort to look at young ppls everyday lives has resulted to sub-cultures. Sub-cultures (working class) disinguished from counter-culture (middle class) Usually ppl who are on the margins of the society (working class guys) how do guys respond. Through expression and visible signs of discontent that leads to punk. Bricolage (transforming the meaning of things)-reworking the meaning of everyday things by homology (using symbolic expression) homology -(creaing a coherent symbolic expression) as strategies of. Late 60s early 70s punk scenes which represented a highly visible play with the signs of cultural.