SOC 202
Popular Culture
What is considered popular culture is up for debate. This course examines different ideas about popular culture and how they inform our personal politics, consumption practices, and common-sense ideas about the world. We consider how different cultural industries are shaped, packaged for consumption, but sometimes resisted. Using a critical approach we sociologically examine cultural forms such as advertising, social activism, television, the cult of celebrity, music, electronic and film media, leisure customs, and everyday practices.
Weekly Contact: Lecture:3 hrs.
GPA Weight: 1.00
Course Count: 1.00
Billing Units: 1
Liberal Studies: LL
Prerequisites
None
Antirequisites
SYC 185
Co-Requisites
None
Custom Requisites
None
Mentioned in the Following Calendar Pages
*List may not include courses that are on a common table shared between programs.
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SOC 102
Human Origins -
SOC 103
How Society Works -
SOC 104
Understanding Society -
SOC 105
Introduction to Sociology -
SOC 107
Sociology of the Everyday -
SOC 108
Indigenous Peoples and Decolonization -
SOC 111
The Social World I -
SOC 112
The Social World II -
SOC 202
Popular Culture -
SOC 203
Social Class and Inequality -
SOC 221
The Hip Hop Lens on Society -
SOC 25A/B
Media and Society -
SOC 300
Sociology of Equity and Diversity -
SOC 302
The City and Society -
SOC 305
Sociology of Deviance -
SOC 319
Sociological Perspectives on Crime -
SOC 31A/B
Sociology of Health -
SOC 402
The City and Social Problems -
SOC 411
Intro to Quantitative Data Analysis -
SOC 420
Social Class in Changing Times -
SOC 427
Indigenous Perspectives on Canada -
SOC 470
Toronto: The Changing City -
SOC 472
At Work in a Changing World -
SOC 473
Classical Sociological Theory -
SOC 474
Immigration, Borders and Belonging -
SOC 475
Contemporary Sociological Theory -
SOC 476
Sociology of Fear -
SOC 477
Sociology of Advertising -
SOC 478
Sociology of Fun -
SOC 479
Social Networks and the World Wide Web -
SOC 481
Survey Design and Analysis -
SOC 482
Advanced Approaches to Media Analysis -
SOC 483
Advanced Statistical Modeling -
SOC 490
Capstone: Specializing Your Knowledge -
SOC 491
Independent Sociological Analysis -
SOC 492
Current Social Issue Focus -
SOC 493
Making Social Change -
SOC 494
Career Integration -
SOC 500
Youth and Society -
SOC 501
Making a Living: Sociology of Work -
SOC 502
Violence and the Family -
SOC 503
Sociology of Education -
SOC 504
Children and Society -
SOC 505
Sociology of Sport -
SOC 506
Health and Society -
SOC 507
Race and Ethnicity in Canadian Society -
SOC 525
Media and Images of Inequality -
SOC 530
Blackness and Freedom -
SOC 540
Special Topics in Indigenous Studies -
SOC 595
Women and Aging -
SOC 600
Globalization and Health -
SOC 601
Control and Resistance at Work -
SOC 603
Sociology of Gender -
SOC 605
Families: Difference and Diversity -
SOC 606
Work and Families in the 21st Century -
SOC 608
Women, Power and Change -
SOC 609
Women and Human Rights -
SOC 611
Future Worlds: Technology and Social Change -
SOC 633
Sex, Gender Identities, and Sexualities -
SOC 656
Fashion and Society -
SOC 700
Men and Masculinities in the 21st Century -
SOC 701
Social Change: Canadian Perspectives -
SOC 702
Anatomy of Human Conflict -
SOC 703
Women, Power and the Global South -
SOC 704
Aging, Culture and Society -
SOC 705
Law and Justice -
SOC 706
Globalized Labour and Consumption -
SOC 707
Religion, Meaning and Power -
SOC 708
Environmental Sociology -
SOC 800
Theories of Society -
SOC 801
Global Power Relations -
SOC 802
Issues in War and Peace -
SOC 803
International Community Engagement -
SOC 808
Sociology of Food and Eating -
SOC 880
Information Technology and Society -
SOC 885
Women and Islam -
SOC 902
Hollywood and Society -
SOC 903
Action Cinema and Modernity -
SOC 904
Women in Popular Culture -
SOC 931
Waste and Consumerism -
SOC 932
The Entertainment Industry -
SOC 941
Colonialism and Racialization -
SOC 942
Women and Structural Change -
SOC 943
Poverty Issues