Mass culture, cultural industry, popular culture, capitalist ideology, Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno, Edgar Morin, cultural diversity, cultural production
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This document discusses the concepts of mass culture, popular culture, and cultural industry, exploring their definitions, characteristics, and the impact of capitalist ideology on society.
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[...] However, mass culture tends to make these two forms of art disappear. While the higher arts would disappear, the lower arts would be recovered for commercial purposes. This is why Adorno speaks of cultural industry (in the singular) to designate the system of production of mass cultural goods that are for him products. According to him, these products give a a false impression of novelty but they are in reality based on a standardizing logic (assembly line production, resemblance, same scheme). [...]
[...] But these cultural and media industries respond to a social demand. In fact, during the 20the in the 20th century, there has been a certain number ofsocial acquisitions (paid holidays, reduction of working hours . ) and all this has contributed to a a strong demand for leisure from individuals to occupy their free time, demand to which the cultural and media industries will respond. Unlike the agro-food sector, the cultural sector must constantly renew itself (information in newspapers, musical and cinematographic works?). [...]
[...] For him, a subtitled film is already a cosmopolitan film in the sense that it seeks to go beyond its original national target. [...]
[...] Through this mass culture, the cultural industry seeks to make the working classes accept their conditions as 'dominated'. The goal is to maintain the current state of things in terms of domination. The ultimate goal is to impose its norms, values, and struggles on the dominated classes in such a way that they take to heart interests that are not theirs. The masses accept being deceived as long as entertainment brings them satisfaction, even if it's temporary. T. Adorno is in a a speculative approach. [...]
[...] Bourdieu holds the idea that today, we hold the idea that culture would favor cultural diversity. Juvenilization of culture : preeminence of youth themes within mass culture. In this sense, he identifies a double trend. Culture for children is increasingly aimed at preparing them for adult culture. It is the case of children's press, a certain number of daily newspapers aim to explain current events to them? Children are consuming adult culture at an increasingly early age. This popular culture also contributes to the progressive disappearance of barriers between the sexes. [...]
