SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Vocal Spectrum, Mass Society, Red Hat Society

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Japanese teanage school girls, small percentage, very extreme scene because you have to look different from everybody else: consumer items, props , have to be commited, groups have social networks, nortons were suffering from the depression. 2: uses scenes because its one word, most use social worlds- best likes it better, emplies completeness and a self sufficient society, howard becker- Talks about the social world of art: includes artists, but also galleries, museums, critics, even how people operate within social worlds, worlds change, segmentation- Ex: people dressing up as civil war soldiers. Farbs - fail the test of authenticity: not correct based on the era. Barbershop quarter- a romanticized vision of the past: buffalo bills- barbershop superstars, vocal spectrum- modernizing barbershop, tension between people who are traditional and new- traditionalists recoil. Bogardus article- traditional people saying they need to do it the right way, and then there are newcomers with retro bolts .