Kellner Cultural Studies Multiculturalism and Media Culture Lull Hegemony Althusser Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Anderson Introduction to Imagined Communities Schrock and Schwalbe Men Masculinity and Manhood Acts Bird Welcome to the Men s Club Homosociality and the Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity Omi and Winant Racial Formation Voting Rights Act Baldwin McNamee and Miller The Meritocracy Myth Marx The Destructive Power of Money Marx on Alienation Fausto Sterling Thinking About Homosexuality Garnets Sexual Orientations in Perspective Lyden To Commend or To Critique Douglas Kellner Cultural Studies Multiculturalism and Media Culture cultural pedagogy and media literacy p 1 o Cultural pedagogy they contribute to educating us how to behave and what to think feel believe fear and desire and not what to do o Media literacy learning how to read criticize and resist socio cultural manipulation can help empower oneself in relation to dominant forms of media and culture Culture as contestation pp 2 3 o A site of contestation between mainstream culture dominant fashions trends values behaviors and multiple subcultures which resist dominant forms of culture and identify formation James Lull Hegemony Know Lull s definition of hegemony first paragraph p 25 o Hegemony is the power or dominance that one social group holds over others Relation between media and ideology pp 26 27 o Society s ruling elites use mass media as tools for maintaining ideological hegemony by pushing their own moral cultural values values which happen to reproduce the conditions for their wealth and power Relation between ideology and hegemony p 26 o Hegemony does not mature strictly from ideological articulation o Hegemony requires that ideological assertions become self evident cultural assumptions Importance of consent last full paragraph of p 26 Hegemony implies o Hegemony implies a willing agreement by people to be governed by principles rules and laws they believe operate in their best interests Know why Lull claims it is difficult for alternative ideologies to challenge hegemonic ideologies through media p 27 o Radical ideas typically appear only on underfinanced non commercial radio and TV stations and in low budget print and media Louis Althusser Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Only p 32 Reproduction of Labor Power to top three lines of p 38 Know the difference between ISAs and RSAs singular o r SA public o ISA functions by violence and ideology government agencies that use force Plural Private kind of Functions by ideology and violence Non government agencies mostly Be able to identify examples of both ISAs and RSAs o Repressive State Apparatus Government Courts or legal system Police Army o Ideological State Apparatuses Education Family Political System Religion Unions Cultures Media Be familiar with the role of wages and ideology in reproducing labor power p 32 34 o It is not enough to ensure for labour power the material conditions of its reproduction if it is to be reproduced as labour power o This reproduction of the skills of labour power tends decreasingly to be provided for on the spot but is achieved more and more outside of production o Reproduction of labour power requires not only a reproduction of its skills but also at the same time a reproduction of its submission to the rules of the established order Sharon Bird Welcome to the Men s Club Homosociality and the Maintenance of Hegemonic Masculinity Know what is meant by hegemonic masculinity p 123 124 o Hegemonic masculinity which is the maintenance of practices that institutionalize men s dominance over women and it s constructed in relation to women and to subordinate masculinities o Hegemonic masculinity is maintained and how meanings that do not correspond to hegemonic masculinity are suppressed Know the term homosociality and its relation to hegemonic and nonhegemonic masculinities p 124 o Homosociality refers specifically to the non sexual attractions held by men or women for members of their own sex o Promotes clear distinctions between women and men through segregation in social institutions o Homosociality promotes clear distinctions between hegemonic masculinities and nonhegemonic masculinities by the segregation of social groups Know Bird s 3 components of male homosocial relations p 125 o Homosociality contributes to the perpetuation of hegemonic masculinity 1 Emotional detachment a meaning constructed through relationships within families whereby young men detach themselves from mothers and develop gender identities in relation to which they are not 2 Competitiveness a meaning constructed and maintained through relationships with other men whereby simple individuality becomes competitive individuality 3 Sexual objectification of women a meaning constructed and maintained through relationships with other men whereby male individuality is conceptualized not only as different from female but as better than female Schrock and Schwalbe Men Masculinity and Manhood Acts Know the difference between males and men p 137 o Males men o Male biological anatomical o Man a particular type of social being Know what a manhood act is what is its function and who can perform one pp 137 top 139 o Manhood acts have the effect of reproducing an unequal gender order o All manhood acts as we define them are aimed at claiming privilege eliciting deference and resisting exploitation Benedict Anderson Introduction to Imagined Communities Know what Anderson means when he defines the nation as an imagined community especially why they are imagined and limited pp 156 157 o It is an imagined political community and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign o It is imagined because the member of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members meet them or even hear of them yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion o A nation is imagined as limited because even the largest of them has finite if elastic boundaries beyond which lie other nations Omi and Winant Racial Formation Approach to race and conceptions of race they reject p 166 o To think of race as an essence as something fixed concrete and objective or the opposition to think of race as a mere illusion o Race as an unstable and decentered complex of the social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle o Race is a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of
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