How are the concepts of culture, community, and society different? How are they similar?
What roles do communities serve? How is the notion of community linked to popular culture?
What are the differences between subcultures and countercultures?
What is folklore?
Suggested Readings
Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers
Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Sample Assignments/Activities
Have students identify and discuss the various communities to which they belong and consider the ways in which their identities are expressed by these various communities.
Watch the Sons of Anarchy opening credits and look at the imagery and the use of material objects for expressing group membership and identity.
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