AP/SOCI 4510 6.00

Popular Culture and Social Practice in Canada

This course examines different forms of popular culture and how they inform personal politics, consumption, and common-sense ideas about the world. We explore the development and social significance of popular culture in Canada. Representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality are analyzed to critically situate the role of popular culture in perpetuating social inequality. We survey advertising, activism, television, social media, music, film and leisure customs as cultural industries that influence and are sometimes resisted in everyday social practices.