Just a few notes from class 10/04/2017
Culture & Nature
-Hard to find common ground
-Difficult to define
Culture
-A general process of intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic development
-A particular way of life, whether of a people, a period or group
Clifford Gentry– Simply the ensemble of stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves.
Williams and notion of “popular”
-well liked b many people
-inferior kinds of work
-works deliberately setting out to win
-culture actually made by the people for themselves
Story
-Popular culture is simply culture which is favored or well liked by many people
-culture which is left over after we have decided what is high culture
-popular culture as mass culture
-the culture which originates from “The People”
-culture as the site of Granscian struggle
-popular culture & postmodernism
-popular culture is a culture that only emerged following industrialization and urbanization
