POLS 4185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: False Consciousness
19 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Definition of material
Physical, actual
Economic, political economic, relating to the relations of production and the
mode of production
Culture
Culture as standard of excellence vs. as a whole way of life
Use culture in a different way – use the word to describe human being overall
Who we are as a society
“Culture is ordinary” (R Williams)
Contribution he made is when people talked about culture, they only talk about
arts, temples, religion, etc..
Uncovering the concealed fundamentals of history
By studying practices and customs people engage in, you can find their history
Obsessions with authentic cultures
Even though they extended meaning of culture to everything
Marxist, against capitalists
Developed into the study of “ideology”
Younger generation of cultural theorists study to think that we need to find out
relationships of domination which is articulated to culture
There is a powerful culture in a certain culture which reflects the ruling class of
that place
The Ruling ideas
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas – the class which
is ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force
Fundamentally connected to other capitalist corporations, we cant believe the
media will deliver the correct news
Means of communication and knowledge production
The form of universality
False consciousness (freedom, free market, equality)
The danger of ideas as forms of self determination
Hegel: idealism vs. Marx: historical materialism
Ideas we have are coming from ruling elites
People have first conscious about society and ruling elites actively implicate false
consciousness to the people
True conscious is about people being dis-illusion about the society they are in,
they live in a society that gives us a lot of choices/freedom
Neo-facists in the U.S., why did they choose to be racist?
Lived experiences, people becomes racist/homophobic due to this
Barthes & Mythologies
Uncovering of the latent meanings of everyday life objects (and signs)
A semiotic analysis: a “second order semiological system”
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Document Summary
Economic, political economic, relating to the relations of production and the mode of production. Culture as standard of excellence vs. as a whole way of life. Use culture in a different way use the word to describe human being overall. Contribution he made is when people talked about culture, they only talk about arts, temples, religion, etc By studying practices and customs people engage in, you can find their history. Even though they extended meaning of culture to everything. Younger generation of cultural theorists study to think that we need to find out relationships of domination which is articulated to culture. There is a powerful culture in a certain culture which reflects the ruling class of that place. The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas the class which is ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
