ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cultural Reproduction, Compulsory Education, Youth Culture
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The social process by which individuals learn cultural meanings and values such as gender roles, racial relations, class relations, politics, etc. Takes place through rituals and everyday relations and interactions. Mass media and new info technology (music, tv, films, internet, etc. ) The ways in which young people are differentiated from the general culture of their community. Typically a feature of north american cultures. May seem rebellious; centers on conformity to an in-group as youth is a time of identity formation. Fetish: object believed to have supernatural powers. Created by the people that has power over the people. American youth culture creation of the media and marketing efforts. Site for the enactment of youth culture. Popular culture enacted; social constructions of race, gender, and class are staged and reproduced (race, gender, and class learned/enacted/contested through sports, dating,etc. ) What children and youth do on the school floor shapes the way they interact.
