SOCIOL 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Antonio Gramsci, Silent Majority, Utopia
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Chapter one: from culture to hegemony dick hebdige. Culture (oxford english dictionary definition covers a variety of different things) As a scientific term, refers to process (artificial development of microscopic organisms) and a product (organisms as produced) Since end of the 18th century, english intellectuals to focus critical attention on a whole range of controversial issues. Organic society: society as an integrated, meaningful whole. Dream has two basic trajectories: led back to the past and to the feudal ideal of a hierarchically ordered community, led towards future, to a socialist utopia where distinction between labour and leisure was to be annulled. Culture (def 1): essentially classical and conservative; standard of aesthetic excellence (def 2): particular way of life which expresses certain meanings and values in art, learning, institutions, and ordinary behavior. Literary critical analysis must apply to more in order to explore meanings for individuals and societies. Wanted to expose arbitrary nature of cultural phenomena.
