In Justin Pearson's memoir, From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry, he recounts the events that occurred since his early teenage years into the later years of his adulthood as he tells the story of his ruthless and frank life. Set in the late 1970s era of punk rock, From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry offers a valuable perspective on the role culture plays in our lives, how we interact with it, and how it differs from ideology. Explain the relationship between culture and ideology. in one of his propositions in Critical Practice, George Grinnell notes that “culture delivers an ideology that is dedicated to maintaining the status quo more or less intact” (Grinnell 46). Better yet, he goes on to argue that cultural objects and practices need not be explicitly ideological, but that they can also “encode certain assumptions quite subtly” (46). Even if I accept that culture can be ideological in the sense that it can inculcate certain principles, is it correct to say that culture and ideology are one and the same? In From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry, culture represents our daily lives, while an ideology is a set of values ​​held by a particular group with the aim of influencing the behavior of others. More than that, culture is the way we express ourselves and how we share it with the world around us. In this sense, culture is also different from ideology in that the values ​​held within a specific culture are left open to interpretation and exploration, rather than being pushed into acceptance by the others. Take Jehovah’s Witnesses for example; if you've ever lived in a community where religious practices are common, you've probably received one... middle of paper ... America was, for the most part, still centralized around the image of a Mohawk sturdy, wife beater, carrying Junkie.Works CitedHaenfler, Ross. Ruler. 2006. Internet. March 9, 2014. P. 35-45 http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/books/9780813539911/ Grinnell, George C. Critical Practice. Internet. March 11, 2014. P. 45-47 https://connect.ubc.ca/bbcswebdav/pid-1745829-dt-content-rid-6443642_1/courses/SIS.UBCO.ENGL.153.101.2013W2.25500/Critical%20Practice %202013.pdf Pearson, Justin. From the graveyard of the excitement industry. Soft Skull Press, 2010.Graff, Gerald; Birkenstein, Cathy. They say/I say. WW Norton & Company Inc, 2010. Montgomery, James. Singer Lux interior crampons. 2009. Internet. March 11, 2014 http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1604336/cramps-singer-lux-interior-dead-at-62.jhtml Flexner, Stuart Berg. New American Oxford Dictionary. 2005.