SOC483Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Erving Goffman, Cultural Capital, Culture Shock
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Soc483y1 cultural repertoires - swidler and darnton. The great cat massacre - darnton comical according to a certain culture (working class) specific to a perspective of a certain culture. Sleepless night, cat noises, mimic cats, put show on self, massacre goes on because fed up, make a ceremony/ritual out of it- playing from different cultural elements that allow story to play through. End up hanging, killing cats insight to what they thought was funny but why. They have a guild which has own thought style- ceremonies used, also in work and environment and culture of the working class. Torture of animals was a popular form of entertainment- what they play on nothing unusual with killing of cats symbolic use of cats: cat = big symbolism. Ceremonies- carnival lent executions include ceremonies. Gruesome but this was reality to them, german cats etc. St. john the baptist, fire, magic powers, elements of mystical which permeated everything.
