SOC 105 - Popular Culture

Institution:

University of New England

Subject:

Sociology

Description:

This course critically studies contemporary American culture by examining a broad range of its more everyday manifestations. These will include advertisements, television programming for children and adults, popular song lyrics, comic books, cartoons and other forms of humor, toys, sports, games, food preferences, and popular song lyrics, comic books, cartoons and other forms of humor, toys, sports, games, food preferences, and popular magazines and tabloids. The course is "hands-on". Information on popular culture is collected and analyzed with a variety of social science theories and research techniques. Major attention is paid to images of women and men and racial and ethnic groups as they appear in popular culture, and to the way in which popular culture reflects and reinforces the American class structure. No prerequisite.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

Notes:

Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

09/01/2006 - 09/01/2007 

Institution Website:

www.une.edu/

Phone Number:

(207) 283-0171

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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