SOC 525 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Hegemonic Masculinity, Interlocking, Michael Vick

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 525
• Professor: Purnima George

Document Summary

Understand that media is a pedagogical tool. We must learn and acquire tools for being media literate. Cultural studies has contributed significantly to media critique. Examines how the media constructs a particular world view, but also interested in how subcultural groups and individuals resist dominant forms of culture and identity. It understands that culture must be studied with social relations where culture is produced and consumed. Cultural studies reveal how media culture depicts dominant value political ideologies and social developments of the times. > example: why can"t madonna in this moment in time make us much money as beyonc ? (political ideologies and social developments) Central to cultural studies are concepts such as hegemony (the dominant status quo requires all of our acceptance. with hegemony there is always resistance) and ideology. For dominant ideologies sever to reproduce social relations or domination and subordination. Examines how relations of power and domination are.