SOC 202 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: The Yes Men Fix The World, Culture Jamming, Transphobia

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

Document Summary

Cultural locations: sites, spectacles and consuming publics https://courses. ryerson. ca/d2l/le/content/76051/viewcontent/1263202/view. The freak show: public ritual and transitional moment. The public exhibition of odd bodies has been seen back since the 16th century. The heydey of the freak show was the 1850-1930s. It declined because people started to see the freak show as something immoral or improper. They were usually travelling shows, going to fairs or museums town to town. There were four groups: disabled people, non disabled people of colour from colonized countries, non disabled people of colour from the u. s, non disabled people with visible differences. Their stage name were based off their cultural or physical difference. In the heyday it wasn"t only disabled people who were stars, there were many people of colour or from around the world as well as people who had some feature of difference (bearded lady)