SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Semiotics, Industrial Revolution, Profit Margin
8 Dec 2016
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Key words: culture industry thesis, pseudo individuality, producerly texts: key words: mass culture, folk culture, popular culture. Cultural products and practices that have developed within a particular. Produced for an unknown, disparate audience depends on electronic (cid:523)or. The act of turning mass media into popular media involves (cid:498)the active process of generating and circulating meanings and pleasures(cid:499) Culture which has been meaningfully integrated into the everyday lives of: the culture industry thesis. Foundational elements of mass culture theory can be found in theories of. Growth of industrialization and mechanized production (industrial revolution & division of labour) populated cities. People moving closer to industrialized centres led to formation of densely. Decrease in agriculturally-based work = decline in the culture of (cid:498)the village(cid:499) and a move away from moral and cultural authorities. They are worried about the culture industry of their time. Culture industry thesis 2+3: reinforce and maintain the status quo, no possibility of resistance.
