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Kassy, Yvonne, and Jennifer

June 7, 2011 Culture- beliefs, traditions, music, food, values in a group people Way of life []

June 8, 2011 Folk culture is a lifestyle of a culture with traditions that has been handed down from generation to generation. Examples- handmade quilts, tepees, Tejano music, art work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejano_music

Mass culture refers to how culture gets produced, distributed, and marketed. Mass culture is a set of values and ideas that arise from common exposure of a population to the same cultural activities, communication media, music and art. [] High culture- more valued High culture was created by the upperclass not allowing the mass people access to a particular thing they wanted to be concidered high culture. Example: Shakespeare and Opera, Non-profit-big donors for their "circle"

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June 9, 2011 Pop culture- Images, Ideas, Perspectives, and attitudes seems preferred by a main group of a society that is current. Many forms of pop culture like music, sports, fashion, advertising, toys, television. It changes.

Things that was folk culture but became pop culture- pinatas, hip hop Issues that are reflected by mass media are of race, gender, sexuality, social status. Mass culture is how culture gets produced compared to popular culture is how it gets consumed.

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June 10, 2011 Cultural Studies -is a study of how a particular phenomena relates to matters of ideology, race, social class and gender. it concerns itself with the meaning and practices of everyday life. ex: Michael Jackson, Elvis, the Beatles, Madonna, Paris Hilton, etc

Cultural Hegemony- it's the "force" that lures or tugs at a person to desire to have what the ruling class takes for granted. Women: blonde is beautiful, glamorous, thin Men: white, superior, inherent rights

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June 13, 2011 Battle of Flowers

June 14, 2011 Rituals and Experiences of Solidarity - When people bring out their flags and jersys while driving and honking it fosters a shared a sense of social solidarity.

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Public Relfrection - Obama's inauguration open the door to discussion of the possibillity of change.

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Rituals of rebellion - Tina Fey's representation of Sarah Palin was an example of standing up against the political status quo. It also highlights the gender inequality in America. []

June 20, 2011 Battle of Flowers Kassy- History/Culture -The Actual Battle -The battle of flowers- Who created it, why/how they created it? -Culture -Folk and now Pop -White/High C -Hispanic/common/Low C -Media Yvonne- Political & Media Jennifer- Economics & Media

June 21, 2011

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June 28, 2011- In order to have Interpretive communities, people have to have shared common alloties. People are going to have different interpretation depending on personel experiences. Connected and shared by social, language, ethnical, and/or religous background and view. They change overtime depending on the different pop cultures at that time. Examples: Rap music- The music is vilolant Rappers are releasing/responding to what they see everyday.

Consumption and advertisment- Video Dominated by "magic". Instant happiness and gratification. Econmoist- Quantitive production Production, Distribution, consumption 175 billion ad spending in us adviretise has colonized a culture adviretisement tied into movies sports intergrated into the market What values does advertisement stress? Advertisement says that we are happy through the consumption of objects.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 TERMS FOR STUDY //Social Self// - is the building of one's self-image from the judgments of others, usually in relationship, or at least from what they imagine such evaluations to be. Our identities require acknowledgment from society to become truly meaningful, or even to exist. (ex. Being given our first and last names and requiring others to use it)

//Personhood// - is the multiplicity of social roles, or the presentations of self that we strategically embody when participating in different social worlds. For example, how our interpersonal demeanor shifts when we interact with our parents, high school friends, college classmates, professors, police officers, co-workers, and bosses.

//Market Mavens//- are people who have a wealth of knowledge about a variety of products and has a greater influences of consumption and cultural taste on their peers. They want the knowledge as well as the opportunity to share their knowledge of expertise. They anticipate using their knowledge in social interactions.

//Subculture//- a social group that stands apart from the larger group by different identities, beliefs, or practices. A group of society that is in a larger society. Informal groups of consumers who use objects/items of pop culture to manufacture collective identity and style. Example: American subcultures-surfers, skateboarders, punks, rockers

//Translocal scenes//- cultural scenes that can easily reproduce versions of themselves in locales across the world. Circulate fashions and lifestyles in patterns of cross-national diffusion. Example: international rave scene: German techno, Tokyo techno, Goa techno, American techno //Local scenes//-Are centralized within single venues, such as punk-rock clubs,street corners, night clubs or parks. These venues are spread throughout urban neighborhoods or enterainment zones, they're local scences that add a theatrical backdrop for public performances conducted among cultural consumers who show off their identity (new dance moves, piercings and designer clothing). (p.81)

//Connectors//-are individuals who bridge a particularly large number of descrete and confined networks; they efficiently spread pop cultural fads, trends, and fashions across a variety of distinctly unique groups who otherwise never interact. Connectors are the sorts of people who truly know everyone-yet their cultural influence needs to be well established in the kind of people they know not just the volume of people they know, according to Gladwell. (p.74)

//Opinion Leaders//- bring together their familarity and involvment with specific kinds of centeral products, categories, or geners to make informed reccomendations to their peers...opinion leaders tend to be very knowlegeable in a particular field, often related to their job or full-time hobby. (p.77)