SOC 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Gross Domestic Product, Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin
26 Sep 2016
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Chapter 4 the production of popular culture. The entire economy is now dependent on popular culture. The performance of the overall economy has become dependent on consumer spending, especially on nonessential items. There is no simple way to separate the production of popular culture from the processes through which it is consumed. The production of culture has been seen as a small segment of economic production in general, and the culture that is produced has been treated as secondary to more primary economic and materials forms and forces. Money changes everything : the pitfalls of thinking about production. We are all familiar with discussing popular culture in reference to production. It is often the case that we know more about the economics of pop culture that the content of pop culture itself. I. e. knowing which movies were a big hit, sometimes even knowing the plot, but without ever watching them.
