SOC 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pro-Form, Quilting, Emily Dickinson

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3410
• Professor: Mervyn Horgan

Document Summary

This week (march 14th) and next week readings read. Final: questions will be very open give opportunity to take ideas in course and demo understanding. Culture industry group called frankford schools: jews from early mid 20th. Looks at artist production (formation of art) century and go w/ marx"s ideas & said popular culture is like alienation in factories. Production of culture like production of factory work & anti-creative. He was interested in what is the actual way they produce art. Resources (food and shelter) when we have just enough. Any economic concerns connected to art ruins the symbolic expression and quality of it. Something we do for no reason other than making it art for art"s sake . Define a world consisting of all those ppl & organizations whose activity is necessary to produce the kind of event & objects, which that world characteristically produces.