SOC 105 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Structural Functionalism, Canada, Social Class

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 105
• Professor: Carmen Schifellite

Document Summary

Climate change, oil companies discredit crisis and try to confuse people. Can convince people of untruths or confuse them into not knowing what to believe. Idea that popular culture in society produces resistance. Where is his world we are seeing thousands of images per day. Publicity creates glamour- images photo shopped to us are not real, we are excepted to want to look like ads. Dreams and desires- we can all be rich and famous. Selling inspiration- depicting everyday man doing something extraordinary. Selling transformation- man will have success, fame, status. Aims to allow dominant groups to build leadership, consensus or cooperation. Process of attempting to absorb and transform challenges of alternative and oppositional voices. Ongoing sites where contestation and negotiation occur- we are not robots. Always an active process in repair because society is always throwing up challenges: hegemony must be adaptable.