J 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Celebrity Culture, Governmentality
8 Nov 2017
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Popular culture is a pervasive part of everyday life in western societies all mediated through popular culture amateur cultural production first place. Pop culture incorporates mass culture, celebrity culture, commercial culture and. Popular culture often shapes our understanding of ordinary everyday life in the. Shapes our understanding of everyday life and identities. Pop culture is a symptom of larger social relationships pop culture. Aim to understand pop culture"s texts as symptomatic of, and conditioned by, social, cultural and political foundations relationships. Managerial era - state took direct responsibility for managing mass populations via institutions, laws, education and media and culture. Governmentality: how we think about governing others and ourselves using techniques to reflect upon, work on, and organize our lives. Power functions via the knowledge and procedures associated with. Power is facilitated via interactions between institutions and people social institutions.
