SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Arab Spring, Culture War, Dominant Ideology
1 Jun 2013
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We will first finish last week"s lecture on culture, identity, the body and community. Like last week, we might not be able to take a break due to the length of the documentary we need to screen. Meaning and language are connected to culture: those making cu. Making claims: are not always accurate or realistic. Anything you see, eat, listen to is making claims about how reality looks like. The what" of texts: what is on the surface, whats deep, whats being described. Chapter 4 (the what of) is presenting to us the historical approaches to crituqe popular culture. In tunisia, egypt: whats being represented ? social-political unrest. The how" of texts: how are they organized. When you"re cropping a pic for fb profile, you make the frame smaller, cut your ex. Boundaries and limits, think about a pic frame, when you reduce the size of a frame you limit what people see.
