SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Capital, Max Horkheimer, Culture Industry
8 Dec 2016
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Barker: hybridity, culture is not fixed, complete, singular. How our immersion in mass culture impacts/shapes our identity, responsiveness, thoughts and feelings. Jenkins: how time changes our relationship with texts and stories. Section 2: popular social marketplaces + the consuming life. A particular form of human interaction and kind of social relationship. Objects and services produced for consumption and exchange by someone other than their producers. Consumption produces cultural meanings: consumption as a means of producing and reinforcing social and cultural distinctions and differences, connections b/w consumption and individual identity and agency, political meaning of contemporary forms of consumption. Consumption as distinction: the idea that we consume freely in an illusion. Our tastes are developed and cultivated within a social context: one of the primary social meanings of consumption is social distinction and differentiation. We create social and individual meaning through consumption. (cid:498)consumption was becoming (cid:494)conspicuous(cid:495) obvious, noticeable, and visible in order to signal or symbolize class differences and distinctions(cid:499)
