[SOC 202] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (25 pages long!)
1 Dec 2016
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Popular culture is a dynamic process (not a thing) that we actively engage in everyday. Processes and practices of cultural making use an array of available and desirable popular texts. Happens because of tensions between those who generate cultural products, those who consume them, and how these produces are used in everyday practices (fiske, understanding popular culture, 1989) Cultural industries can only produce a repertoire of texts" and resources that people will use or reject in the ongoing active process of creating culture (fiske, 1989, p. 28) We become active producers of our own meanings and pleasures when we choose alternative interpretation and meanings. Not just about the commodities bought and sold. Popular culture can teach us about the world and the self"s relationship to it. Active process of generating and circulating meanings and pleasures within a social system. Texts are imprinted with both normative and oppositional meanings.
