SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption, Celebrity Culture

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Pop culture: widespread cultural patterns in a society. Google it shows the power of our internet generation. What are 3 words to describe pop culture. Each generation, typically driven by youth culture is defined by the pop culture it created/embraces. Pop culture emerged at a time when there was a growth in . Showing off your status + success through buying things thorsten veblen (1912) Concerned for the young women going off the rails. Going from an it girl to a rebel girl. Consumerism (consumer culture) has always been at the center of pop culture. Soon, you could simply buy your image whether or not you actually had that status/success/membership. Loss of authenticity bc of the quantity over quality there is a loss authenticity, doesn"t seem real anymore. A shrinking generation gap since the 1950s culture mass consumption has taken off, having parents and kids having the same conversations, no shift from pop cultures through the generation.