MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Class Conflict, High Visibility, Social Inequality
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How media texts shape the way we think about the world as cultural, political, and social beings. Media texts represents a skewed version of society in relation to class, race, gender, sexuality, age, disability. Media texts represent particular perspectives on the world and society at the cost of excluding other views: worldviews represented in the media are often those of socially powerful or privileged groups. Culture: what human beings produce and the means by which we preserve what we have produced. Physical objects -> artifacts: any of the material aspects of daily life that possess widely shared meanings and manifest group (national, social, political) identification to us. Physical symbol that identifies who we are as a culture: social. Codes and rules govern the creation of artifacts. Displays the overarching ways a culture makes sense of the world. Individuals can be part of a particular culture, but they cannot inhabit a culture on their own.
