SOC202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wiebe Bijker, Popular Culture Studies, Al Jolson
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Lecture 5: the production and reception of culture. Institutions in sociology: institutionalized ways of doing things or persistent patterns of social interaction aimed at meeting the needs of a society. Paul hirsch"s culture industry system: works to regulate and package innovation, transforming creativity into predictable, marketable packages. Technical substem (creative artists) -> filter #1 (due to oversupply) -> managerial. Subsystem (organizations) -> filter #2 (promotion of product) -> institutional subsystem (media gatekeepers like reviewers) -> filter #3 (consumer filtering through media) -> Consumers -> feedback (from media/consumers) -> output boundary -> input bounda. Richard peterson believed market can work to diminish artistic distinctiveness of a cultural object, but increased market size can result in cultural differentiation. Creators produce an excess supply of all cultural objects. These cultural objects compete for public attention. Ideas have to compete for attention just like every other cultural object. Technology: auto-tune, created in 1997, that changes off-keys in singing to fix it.
