SOC 202 Chapter 1: Popular culture Chapter 1
8 Jan 2014
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Question of meaning is never evident always up for negotiation and disagreement. Collection of ideas ad artifacts that comprises a cultural tradition. Everyday rituals such as meals, work, religious observances, sports, sec, family, and friendship. Frequently cited as the thing that threatens to destroy culture . One set of critics laments the dumbing-down of shakespeare to satisfy the tastes of a mass audience in hollywood predictions example: 10 things i hate about you the taming of the shrew. Warns of the corruption of authentic grassroots cultures by the global entertainment industry nostalgia-feeling that something ahs been lost. Culture: social production and reproduction of sense, meaning and consciousness. Meaning the unifies production (economics)and social relations (politics) Definition insofar include a wide variety of meaning-producing practices and technologies includes traditional definitions of culture, fine art and everyday practices mass media. Cultural studies thinks about connections between culture ad the spheres of politics and economics.
