Final paper culture

PLEASE DO NOT COPY OR PARAPHRASE FROM OTHERS ON THE INTERNET! IT MUST BE YOUR OWN WORDS! I DO NOT NEED ANY FORMAT LIKE PROFESSOR, STUDENTS, DATE, ETC.
Please answer prompts by these instructions:
How do cultural objects, ideas, practices, and values come into being, gain meaning and significance, get reproduced, and undergo transformations? How do certain cultural ideas and practices both reflect and reinforce the social structures of which they form a part? Who produces culture and who consumes it – and on what basis? Is there a difference between ‘mass’ and ‘high’ culture? Is culture a serious or a playful area of study? Is there room for resistance against oppressive forms of culture? Do forms of culture themselves work to subvert taken-for-granted ways of life? What is the relationship between forms of culture and the intersecting social locations of class, race, gender, and sexuality? What methods or means of exploring are best suited to questions raised in the broad interdisciplinary area that is the sociology of culture? These are some of the questions that our introduction to the sociology of culture course will consider.In considering these questions, this course has as its master theme the question of culture in relation to ideology, power, and desire. We will consider the significance of how different forms and sources of power – political, epistemological, physical, and psychological – inform culture, and we will reflect on whether and to what extent the role of conscious or unconscious desires are bound up with expressions of power and culture. Simply put, are cultural forms reflecting or expressing something that we need or want? The answers to such questions will then lead us to finally consider if and how cultural ideas, practices, and objects might be transformed in the service of particular political, practical, ethical, and aesthetic aims. Our overall objective is to explore analyses and critiques of culture from a number of theoretical perspectives in order to approach our cultural worlds from both a more critical and a more curious fashion. -Develop and deploy a range of critical perspectives and concepts as they relate to interdisciplinary cultural studies; -Appreciate the social and historical constructions of race & ethnicity, gender, sex, & sexuality, and techno-scientific practices;-Critically reflect upon the interdependent relationships of cultural ideas, ideologies, practices, and objects;-Identify and communicate interesting aspects of, and illuminating relations between, theoretical concepts and empirical applications; -Critique concepts and analyses, evaluating their capabilities and limitations;-Compose a well-organized, carefully thought-out, and original final paper; -Recognize and analyze cultural concepts and practices in order to identify potential interventions or transformations aimed at addressing issues of human freedom, happiness, justice, and well-being.

Please read them:
1. Marx, Karl – “Theses on Feuerbach” in The Marx-Engels Reader. 1978 [1844] pp. 143-145W.W. Norton & Company
2. Marx, Karl – “The German Ideology” in The Marx-Engels Reader. 1978 [1845] pp. 146-163W.W. Norton & Company
3. Adorno, Theodor, and Horkheimer, Max. 2007 [1944]. “The Culture Industry” in the dialectic of Enlightenment. Pp. 94-136. Stanford University Press.
4. Benjamin, Walter. 1969 [1936]. “The Work of Art in the Age of mechanical reproduction” in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Pp. 217-242. SchockenBooks.
5. Moore, Ryan. 2009. Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis. pp. 1-32, 197-218. NYU Press.
6. Willis, Ellen. 1992 [1981] “Introduction (1&2)” in Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock and-Roll Pp. Xiii-xxxvi. Wesleyan Press.
7. Freud, Sigmund. 2004 [1921]. “Mass Psychology and Analysis of the ‘I’” in Mass Psychologyand Other Writings. Pp. 17-31, 57-76 Penguin Classics.
8. Althusser, Louis. 2011 [1970]. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” in Lenin andPhilosophy and Other Essays Pp. 127-186 Monthly Review Press.Reading Memo 3 Due
9. Fanon, Frantz. 2008 [1952.] Black Skin, White Masks. Introduction, chapters 1-3, Grove Press.
10. Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Pp. vii- 46.Routledge.
11. Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1993 [1873] “On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense” in Philosophy andTruth ed. Daniel Breazeale. Pp. 79-91. Humanity Books.
12. Foucault, Michel. 1988 [1965] Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age ofReason. Pp. 38-84. Vintage Books.
13. Trask, Haunani-Kay. 1999. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty inHawaii. Pp. 147-197 Latitude 20 Books.
14. Lawler, Kristin. 2011. The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism. Pp. 16-68Routledge.

Please reading articles/journals and then answer these prompts, you must answer them!!!!
Prompts: 1.) Pick at least two of the readings/authors that we’ve discussed – or are about to discuss during our final few weeks of class. First, explain what the main argument of the author/text is. In other words, what are the central points being made relative to objects of culture? How do objects relate to their larger cultural contexts? 2.) Compare and contrast the two authors/texts – that is, do they share points in common? Or are they at odds with one another?3.) Finally, do you find one of the authors/texts more persuasive? Why? This can include a discussion of any things you find missing in an argument – did author x not consider social/cultural structure y? Or do you find both persuasive – perhaps for similar or perhaps for different but equally valid reasons? Or do you find neither persuasive – for similar or different reasons.