In Justin Pearson's memoir, From the Graveyard of the Thrill Industry, he recounts the events that occurred from his early teenage years to his later years adult telling the story of her ruthless and sincere life. Set in the "punk rock" era of the late 1970s, 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. Explaining the relationship between culture and ideology in one of his proposals in Critical Practice, George Grinnell notes that “culture provides an ideology dedicated to keeping the status quo more or less intact” (Grinnell 46). Beyond this, he goes on to argue that cultural objects and practices need not be explicitly ideological, but that they can also "encode some assumptions quite subtly" (46). Even if I admit that culture can be ideological in the sense that it can inculcate certain principles, is it correct to say that culture and ideology are two equal things? In From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry, culture is our daily life, 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 how 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 to be accepted by others. Take Jehovah's Witnesses for example; if you've ever lived in a community where religious practices are common, you've probably had one... middle of paper... America was, for the most part, still centralized around the image of a rugged, Mohawk, wife beater wearing Junkie. Works Cited Haenfler, Ross. Riga. 2006. Network. 9 March 2014. Pages 35-45 http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/books/9780813539911/ Grinnell, George C. Critical Practice. Network. 11 March 2014. Pages 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, Giustino. 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. Cramps Inside the Singer Lux. 2009. Network. March 11, 2014 http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1604336/cramps-singer-lux-interior-dead-at-62.jhtml Flexner, Stuart Berg . New Oxford American Dictionary. 2005.