Assignment 1: First Learning Journal Submission

Themes to be Explored

-Define the terms “culture” and “popular” and trace their origins.

-Explain why the cultures of everyday life are worthy of study.

-Identify the cultural features of many aspects of everyday life and document them in  learning journal entries.

-Describe and understand the ways in which the home is a culturally saturated environment.

-Explore how differences in such things as gender, ethnicity, class, age, and sexual orientation relate to culture in the domestic sphere.

-Outline what the four themes given in Unit 1 mean. ( 1-Roles and rituals of Everyday Life: Much of what we do in everyday life we do on “auto-pilot” either due to habit, custom, or a half-conscious awareness of the unspoken expectations of others.

Fedorak, Shirley. Pop Culture: The Culture of Everyday Life. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.