CUL233 Study Guide - Final Guide: Popular 1 Magazine, Alternative Culture, Dominant Culture

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL233
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Some definitions include: commercial/ market" definition, popular" because masses of people listen buy read consume enjoy them to the full . Problems: purports that individuals who enjoy popular" things live in permanent false consciousness . People aren"t cultural dopes capable of recognising the way the realities of working class life are reorganised, reconstructed and reshaped by the way the are represented. The notion of the people as purely passive, outline force is a deeply unsocialist perspective : neglects the essential relations of cultural power domination and subordination which is an intrinsic feature. Suggests that there is an alternative culture" and an authentic culture" or two poles: pure autonomy" or total encapsulation. Suggests that the real" working class isn"t taken in by the commercial substitutes. Although a heroic alternative , it is not convincing: anthropological" definition, pop. culture as things that the people" do or have done cultures, norms, customs and folkways of the people".