AHSS 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mass Society, Green Day, Lower Middle Class
25 Dec 2018
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The left does not help its cause by devaluing, denigrating, or ignoring the art of making do, the everyday practices by which people in subordinated social formations (class, gender, race, sexuality) win tricks against the system . Merton: manifest, latent, dysfunctions of social institutions ex. celebrity. O"guinn: science kills enchanted, promise identity in mass society, charismatic leaders e. sports, actors, musicians. Oprah"s book club i love this look or kim k i love this product . Key idea: fandom is a quasi-religious phenomenon (vestigial)-left over. Ritual at centre of touching greatness phenomenon p157: ex. At concerts wanting to touch celebrity hands: weird connotation because some fans have been known to kill their favourite celebrities. They can still be comforting even though their spiritual basis is long gone p157. She is the closest thing to god if you didn"t have a religion in your life pink on.
