Briefly define the culture industry and how pseudo-individualization plays into it.
What will be an ideal response?
The culture industry encompasses all those sectors involved in the creation and distribution of mass-culture products: television, film, radio, music, magazines, newspapers, books, and the advertisements that sell them. Geared toward entertaining and pacifying the masses, the culture industry administers “mass deception” by churning out a never-ending supply of mass-produced, standardized commodities that “aborts and silences criticism.” Tied directly to the standardization of products is the “pseudo-individualization” that endows “cultural mass production with the halo of free choice or open market on the basis of standardization itself” (Adorno 1941:25). Here is the “parade of progress,” the world of the “new and improved” that masks an eternal sameness.
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Compared to other systems of stratification, class systems are the most likely to permit the ability to move up or down, i.e., __________,
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What are the effects of prevacation and postvacation workloads and homeloads?
What will be an ideal response?
According to sociologist Ferdinand T?nnies, many preindustrial cities could be described as being __________, a society in which social relationships are based on personal bonds of friendship and kinship and on intergenerational stability
a. Gemeinschaft b. oligarchic c. Gesellschaft d. democratic
What is the current global trend in regards to type of government?
a. Countries with the greatest number of poorer people are the most likely to be democratic. b. The current trend is toward more authoritarian governments. c. The tendency toward democracy is greater the more developed a country is. d. The least developed countries tend to be the most democratic. e. The United Nations does not have data regarding types of government globally.