module 2: sessions 8-9

Question 1

describe the sociology of pop culture

Answer 1

-examines ways culture affects the social world
- audeince members are limited by available interprettaions of content and by personal experiences.

Question 2

social norms through popular culture

Answer 2

-> pop culture creates basic social norms: 1) ideas of domiannt classes are transmitted to society in era of late capitalism.
-> pop culture produces social boundaries–> helps us seperate our identity categories from others identity categories.
-> pop-cultue produce rituals that geenrate social solidarity: people whith shared identity have solidarity towards one another.
–> pop-culture generates innovation
–> pop-culture generate social progress

Question 3

relationship between makers and consumers of pop-culture

Answer 3

• producers/creators are placed on opposite end of cultural diamond
• social world and cultural object are placed on opposite end
• social world–> communitty in which cultural object acts

Question 4

3 definitiosn of identity

Answer 4

1. structural construct–> creates boundaries of social groups and defines norms of people within these groups
2. economic-> creates divisions of labor, determining who will work in which occupations.
3. cultural–>central value systems that shape what we believe and what our lives mean.

Question 5

define intersectionality

Answer 5

-> ways in which systems of inequelity based on gender, race, ethnicity, class ´ínterect´to create unqjue dynamics
-> sterytpe–> representation of group that is reperases, dominates thought in social world.
-> representation–> who we see, reas when we consume pop culture , what meanings do they convery abour those people.