COMN 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pierre Bourdieu, Working Class Culture, Raymond Williams
23 Jul 2016
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Almost everything you do is about buying/selling. So most forms of production are about buying/selling. When you"re on facebook, you are also making facebook a lot of money. Facebook is one of the most valuable companies of the world. As a consumer you are producing an economic value for companies. The birmingham school and working class culture. Responses to contemporary culture: mass culture as threat and as promise. Nostalgia for authenticity vs. celebration of the new. Defining culture: practices of distinction (pierre bourdieu) Cultural studies: making the familiar strange: culture: one of the 2 or 3 most complicated words in the english language . Becoming cultured : a general process of intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic development . Culture as a particular way of life; people, a period, a group, or humanity in general. Ex: not wearing religious clothing or anything in any workplace.
