KS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pierre Bourdieu, Conspicuous Consumption, Michel Foucault
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Shares american values, beliefs and customs and is assimilated into american society. Culture industry: combine the creation, production and distribution of goods and services that are cultural in nature. Encoding/decoding: the translation of a message when you decode a message-extracting the meaning of the message into terms that are easily understood. Encoding-translating information into a message in the form of symbols that represent ideas or concepts. Ideology : a system of ideas, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. Also the science of ideas; the study of their origin and nature (culture) Valben- conspicuous consumption: status or class expressed through commodities. Bourdieu-social class expressed through taste acquired through consumption; we. Unconsciously and inevitably express our class background through our commodity choices, e. g. ,. Dna) plays a role, but ks studied ways culture shapes identity. Group identities are constructs of histories and theoretical traditions which can be subject to critique.
