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.

Sociology

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What will be an ideal response?

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