ABSTRACT

In the last two chapters we looked at ways in which the people can turn cultural commodities to their own interests and find pleasure in using them to make their own meanings of their social identities and social relations. Insofar as these are meanings of subordination made by and in the interests of the subordinate, they oppose those promoted by the power-bloc and its ideological practices. But resistance to domination can take many forms, only some of which lie in the production of oppositional meanings.