Mass Culture Debate

Cards (3)

  • mass culture
    Leavis and Leavis
    according to them only a small and educated cultural elite was capable of understanding and profiting from the description of the human experience in art and culture
  • mass culture capitalism
    Durkheim and Tonnies
    capitalism soon polluted this culture and replaced it with a plastic commodity culture
  • mass culture
    Sugrue and Taylor
    there are several processes that culminate in the production of mass culture
    • culture becomes a product to be consumed
    • culture becomes homogenised