Discuss what effects the culture industry has on notions of choice, freedom, and individual identity according to Adorno.
What will be an ideal response?
While the culture industry claims to be a producer of choice, freedom, and individual identity, it instead provides its customers with a totalitarian, conformist social landscape. It thus “cheats its consumers out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects” (ibid.:106). So while we are repeatedly instructed to “Just Do It,” what “it” is is never truthfully revealed: BUY.
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Thomas opposes his opinion by saying that women who work have more stress in their spousal relationship. Whose argument is correct and why? Examine the following options and select the correct response. a. Jeremy is correct because women who work are at less risk of divorce than women who do not work. b. Jeremy is correct because women who work have more time to spend with their spouses and children. c. Thomas is correct because mothers who do not work tend to be happier, healthier, and less depressed than mothers who work. d. Thomas is correct because women who work are less likely to remain childless.
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a. health insurance b. children c. approval of parents d. love
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a. Margaret Mead b. Bronislaw Malinowski c. Colonial administrators d. Emile Durkheim
New urbanism is not all that new, but rather a tool of the political and economic elite to redevelop rundown, dilapidated areas.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)