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19th C - 1950's: start IRMass culture
Situating Britain ( > US, Europe)
Mass consumption
19th C: social change: Industrialization & Urbanization
Terminology
Mass society
Binary thinking
Mass media
Distinction culture/anarchy
Part of cultural elite
Elite minority / Mass majority
Social function: against anarchy
Culture & Civilization
Nostalgic
theory
State should claim culture Matthew Arnold
Ideological framework Top-down
Education
Conservative
Upward mobility
Negative views
Passive audience
Authors Homogenous look
Pessimistic
Leavisism No research
Nostalgia
Popular culture was dangerous
Fearful commercialization
for society, threatening the culture &
Vision
civiliza.on. It was seen as an uncontrolled
Mass culture threatens the culture Dwight McDonald form of leisure.
, Culture as experience Terminology
1960s
Uses of Literacy
UK
Situating
Defended role of working class Richard Hoggart
Shih to neo-liberalism
Culturalism
Guarded optimist
Resistance
Culture as a way of life
Community & communicatons
Reconstruct a particular way of life
Raymond Williams Authors
Ideological framework Experiences, agency & bottom-up
Critic of Leavisism
Marginalized groups
The structure of feeling
Dominant force / Force of resistance
Popular culture as a mobilizer
Culture as a mobilizer E.P. Thompson Vision
Completely different way to look at culture
Research on subcultures
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