SOC 202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Copycat Crime, Celebrity Chef, Consumerism
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It is looking at the content of pop culture, both the consumption and production: we should recognize that pop culture is new. It is not a cultural but an economic phenomenal. Example: google linking with youtube: we should engage in binary consumption, artificial narrative: it is an art, that is about visual art. People were affected by the notsi and fled germany: cultural industries thesis . Standardization: for something to be popular culture it must fit into the narrow category. If the product doesn"t fit, it doesn"t fit into popular culture. It is something that we feel in specialization, it"s a product and thousands of people think it is specials and it"s a mass produced product. It is about the status quote: when you accept the inherent inequality. There is very little opportunity resistance in popular culture. There is a dynamic tension between undergrad culture and counter culture. Counter culture: sometimes comes from popular culture.