SOC345 Lecture Notes - Arab Spring, Egalitarianism, Guy Debord
7 Mar 2014
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Women"s rights environmental movement civil rights movement lgbt movement peace movement etc. An intellectual movements. new set of strategies for critiquing contemporary societies. elucidates the major transformations after the second world war. Connected to their decline as a great power after wwii. Connected to the change in capitalism after wwii. The utmost importance of consumption in the economy and social life more generally. Described by guy debord as the emergence of the society of the spectacle. Rapid spread of tv people had a sense, after wwii, that the 19c was nally over and it was a new world in some sense second context for the emergence of cultural studies: new social movements: Cultural studies saw itself as responding to these movements. We will look at the cultural studies ideas that emerged in canada. We will compare them with those emerging elsewhere. we are using the word culture in a unique way when we say cultural studies.
