SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Culture Industry, Canadian Imperial Bank Of Commerce, Real-Valued Function
Document Summary
* popular culture and it"s relationship to capitalism. * capitalist economy and industrialization changed work, changing both time and space available for popular culture practices (leisure is something you do when you aren"t working) * alters and produces new, more organized, codi ed and morally in ected form of popular culture. * new: pub culture (commodity, place to drink, home away from home) * altered: mob football becomes rugby and soccer (still has roots in practices) * capitalism produces traditions that are altered to become new forms of popular culture. * demands of capitalist productivity are in con ict with certain practices (tension crucial to changes) * popular culture is increasingly commodi ed (pro t driven, everything is thought about in terms of pro t, as capitalism gets going wages increase so that workers can buy things) * starts off as a thing for children and expands it"s audience.