SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Banlieue, Alternative Media, Preppy
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Can you separate society from oneself: in every sense, we create our own reality but 99. 9% create the same reality, none of us invent any of our beliefs, it is taken by somebody else and the society. Film: baraka: shot in 24 countries about different countries" day-to-day activities and rituals. Japan: getting off train, walking down to platform, riding train, wiping sweat, capsule hotels, hot strings, yakuza and their tattoo, walking meditation, ringing bell, sitting in the train, waiting in. 14 the train, middle school girls" in uniform, building machines, factory workers (keyboards and computers), crowded train, rush hour, salary man, ticketing in station. New york: cars, pedestrians, cab driving, tall buildings, people crossing streets, jfk airport, people walking, waiting for someone, more factories, riding escalators, baby chicks on machines, burning beaks, measuring size. Rosenhan on being sane in an insane place .
