RTA 310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Marvin Harris, Asa Earl Carter, Jean-Paul Sartre
5 Jun 2017
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Artists are not blessed with a gift - people with money in uence art: art was funded and purchased by social agents and institutions. Or is it an opportunity for subversion of the oppressed: a: maybe both - maybe we can all make high/low quality art - it"s possible that there are more exibility in terms of the roles. Marxism believes that cultural model is built upon 3 levels: infrastructure - population resources, biological needs, structure - pattern of organization (gov"t, education, etc, superstructure - social institutions (law, religion, politics, etc) Social change was reserved for the elite. Coined by marvin harris, who borrowed from marxist. Materialist ideologies: emphasizes struggles of gender, ethnicity, sexuality . For all social classes: somewhat rejects superstructure notions of marxism, social change is bene cial and available for working class, scholars like gramsci, bakhtin, barthes strived for an understanding of hegemony in culture.
