DEVS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: High Culture, Frankfurt School, Cultural Capital
21 Jan 2016
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Famous book: keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society (that is what we will use to define culture and development in this lecture) Culture williams breakdown: early 15th century: tending of something, basically crops or animals, from the early 16 century: tending of natural growth extended to a process of human development (culture of mind) Improving oneself ( culture of bodies , culture of minds : 18th-early 19th century: decisive change transfer of meaning from nourishment and growth of individuals to that of society. Becomes almost interchangeable with civilization: middle 20th century: tensions between development and culture (civilization) It was a period of profound changes and anxiety. Hierarchal system of production organized around manors. The surplus: every economy must produce enough to keep its participants alive, ad to allow production to continue next year. Replace inputs to production (e. g. seeds for next year"s crop): production above and beyond this is the surplus .
