HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Louis Althusser, Neoliberalism, Materialism

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Professor L.Visano

Document Summary

Culture culture as shared beliefs, values, and practices. What we think and do, is not really ours, its public, what we actually say or do or think consciously or unconsciously are expressions that internalize. Sat of values and beliefs, and practices we all engage in that we ascribe to. Counter culture - cultures that reject the dominant culture. Subculture - cultures that would exist under the dominant culture. Norms are usually described as standards - standards of behaviour. Shared set of values and pass them off. They serve functions, this collective conscious serves a function to maintain and reproduce social order. Conflict approach - culture embodying the culture of power, culture is a social production that is tied to political and economic dimensions of power. Culture is reflective and derivative of socio-economic structures that pervade social institutions. Culture is rooted in history and expressed in action, forms of consciousness and forces of change.