Pop culture freaks chap 3 takeaways Flashcards
What do the Jeffersons and “All in the family” communicate to us about class?
American dream works for some . Class position dictates lifestyle
What does modern family communicate about cvlass?
Little acknowldgement about class identity and distinction . consumption consumption sonsumption
What leisurely items do midern family promote
Big houses great clothes lots of leisure time nice cars, affluent spending regardless of circumastance
What are the three elements in Marx’s capital vilumes in relation to pop culture?
Pop culture is a capatalist production
Pop culture is a system of commodities
Pop culture is a symbol system that teaches us about the economic world
Who cretated the concepts habitus and cultural capital?
Pierre boudieu
What is cultursal captal?
Cultural background, knowledge, disposition, and skills that are passed on from one generation to aother.
Cultural capital represents ways of talking _____, _____ as well as language practice values and dress and behavior
acting , socializing
What is Habitus?
A structure of dispositions that we acquire from life experiences, especially from our families. Schools also play a major role.
Who created the theory, taste culrues, from pop culture to high culture?
Herbert gans
What are the 5 elements in herbaert gans from pop culture to high culture?
High culture, upper middle, lower middle, low cultuer, and quasi folk
What is high culture?
Serious and form focused.n Participants usually highly educated
What is Upper middle?
less serious, reflect new generation of college educsated individuals
What are upper middles more concerned witrh?
making their financial means visable to others, less concerned with issues of form
What is lowe middle?
focused on represenation less tolerant of abstraction
What way does low culture tend to treat culture, and are they more liberal or conservative?
Cnservative, treat it as effeminate and immora, ikely to maintaiun strng gender roles
What is Quasi folk?
Isolated by poverty from mainstream american culture
What does gans use as an example to highlight quasi folk culrture?
Uraba graffiti and telenovelas
What are four major themes of class in contemprary conemas?
True liove conquers class, American dream, ethnic division trumps class unity and class invisibility
What theme relates to most american films?
Class invisibility
Pop culture promotes affluent consumption, even for
Lower incomes
Despite perceptions of rich hoillywood culture industry jobs are predoinantly?
Middle class
In relation to the cultural diamond, overall class is both?
Very powerful and nearly invisible
In relation to the study of women of different classes, tv, and the lenses they view it through, what lens do middle class women and working class women view tv thrugh?
Middle class - gender
working class- class
What is cutural performance?
Demonstrating one has the necesarry level of cultural capital
What idea of the american dream and class are culture industries prooting through pop culture?
That the best chance for entry into middle class ins not redistribution of wealth pr political action, unions, increased educational and occupational opprtunities; but it is through CONSUPTION
What three forms does cultural capital take?
Embodied state, objectified state, and institutionalized state
What is the embodied state
The form of knowledge that resides within us
What is the formally first thing we aquire in the ebodied state?
Language
What is the objectified state?
,Material objects we use to indicate ur social class
Objectified state highlights how in our society we use and buy items to express not necesarrily class, but?
Status
What is the institutionalized state?
The way society measures cultural capital
What is an example of institutionalized capital?
Phd degree gives person higher prestige than graduate and undergraduate degree
