MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Tokenism, Profit Motive, Upper Class
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Mdsa01 chapter 6 (cultural analysis) Cultural studies: study of culture that seeks to understand how the relations of power are enacted, reified, and challenged. How media texts influence the way we think about the world as political and social beings. Culture is simply hat human beings produce and the means by which we preserve what we have produced. michael. It is constructed, multifaceted, and uniquely human. Building blocks of culture (forms) : physical form. Physical objects we leave behind; artifacts. An artifact is a material, human- made object of a culture: social form. Social codes and rules that govern the creation of artifacts. Practices or customs of our daily lives. Customs are our shared, lived experiences: eating, working, driving, laws, etc: attitudinal form. Culture is collective; shared among a group of people. Society is always a collection of cultures and co- or subcultures. Culture is rhetorical it functions symbolically. Culture is historical; it changes, evolves, mutates, fades, disappears over time.
