This course brings sociological insights to popular culture in its complex and multiple dimensions. Focusing on electronic media, popular music, film, fashion, and cyberspace it examines how contemporary sights, sounds and images impact on human beings and their awareness. Special attention is given the cult of the celebrity, popular culture and social control, and the mediated event. LL Lect: 3 hrs. Antirequisite: SYC 185 Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1
