SOC202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Premarital Sex, Sociology Of Culture, Frankfurt School
Document Summary
Relationship between video games and the social world. Video games are a cathartic release, improve certain skills/thought processes. Improves violence in children, used as sensationalist way to make money. These perspectives draw on different relations of video games to societal culture: video games influence society = cultural object -> social world, capitalism fuels creation of video games = social world -> cultural object. Reflection theory: all these theories share close-fit assumption, that culture and society mirror one another. Art doesn"t reflect physical object but form : in platonic origins, implies culture less than real, less fundamental than reflection. These theories see link between cultural object and social world differently: Cultural diamond: social world -> cultural object: capitalist system (social world) changes how objects created (cultural object, culture as base (social world) foundation for superstructure (cultural object) A society"s ruling ideas equal the ideas of its ruling class : people with most money, education, capital, etc. control culture.
