SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Reductionism, Belly Dance, Exoticism
18 Jan 2013
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Culture is what human beings produce and means by which we preserve what we produce. Historical view high culture, only for the rich: today, culture is much more broad, artifacts are more broad than the physical (not just physical objects, example: music. Structure of feeling expresses what it is like to live in our time. Ideology is the sets of beliefs underlying the customs, habits, and practices common to a given culture. To members of that culture, the beliefs seem obviously true, natural, and universally applicable. They may seem just as obviously arbitrary, idiosyncratic, and false to those who adhere to another ideology. Limits the range of acceptable ideas that a person may consider within a particular cultural context. Promotes and legitimates certain perspectives and values while obscuring or devaluing others. (i. e. political parties provides its members with ideology that limits interpretation and helps them distinguish between right and wrong)
