Given Fiskes understanding of hegemony, would he place a cultural “pattern” within the world of “popular culture”?
I think the best answer to this question is that it depends on what cultural “pattern” we are talking about. Benedict’s cultural pattern theory is just that, a theory of cultural patterns, not of hegemonic or sub-group cultural patterns. One can imagine a sub-group of the Pueblo or Plains whose “inner neccessities” (Benedict 2) have motivated them to excorporate the dominant pattern of their group so that thier behavior better resembles that sub-group’s “highly individualized attitude toward life” (Benedict 3). Perhaps this sub-group ascribes to typical Dionysia n themes of “abandon and emotional excess” (Benedict 5). Under these circumstances Fiske’s theory of cultural conflict would caracterize the inner tension of the popular patterns, or sub-patterns within the larger cultural pattern as the one is “working toward the obliteration of others” (Benedict 6) and vice-versa. Likewise, as I try to explain above, the Pueblo and Plains configurations could be read as popular culture that h
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