Week 3 popular culture Flashcards
How do our surroundings impact our perspectives and characteristics?
Environment and society define the contexts we live in, society determines knowledge and true.
Reality is also connected to our interpersonal interactions as well as shaped by mass media
What factors create identity?
- you
- family
- culture, ethnicity, religion
- media environment
- nation state
what is avowed identity?
the impressions we give off / choose to give off eg: clothes or how we act
what is ascribed identity?
impression we give off that we are born with
what is impression management?
Controlling how other people see us
what is communication based on
contexts or situations it occurs in
define capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system where businesses are owned privately, and people freely buy and sell goods and services to make a profit.
what is urbanization?
Urbanization is when more and more people move from the countryside to live in cities.
what is fordism?
Fordism is a way of making lots of the same thing by having workers do small, repetitive tasks in a factory, like putting together cars on an assembly line.
what does popular imply?
of the people, can be positive or negative, negative if of low culture and changes over time
5 historical events which led to the rise of mass/popular media
- intervention of the printing press
- scientific revolution
- the breakdown of the feudal system
- age of political revolutions
- industrial revolution
labour, capitalism and mass culture occured when
individuals started to have more lesiure time, traditional ways of life changed and people began to have an expendable income
what is conspicuous consumption
keeping up with the trends for social status, based on what we want not what we need
what was the penny press
a more entertaining news paper that had gossip and was attention grabbing
what is high culture
forms of culture that are high value and attainable by an elite freed from labour
eg: muesums, art gallaries, gentlemans clubs or golf
