HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Early Modern Europe, Frankfurt School, Orthogenesis
16 Aug 2018
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Popular culture sets the tone for many ways in which we understand the world around us and it is a medium of socialization. It socializes us into a mass culture that we share with millions of others. Important for youth because the in uence of popular culture has taken over as a dominant in uence on youth especially during speci c ages in their lives. Many have said that popular culture is more in uential than parents. In the 19th century, thinkers became concerned with an ever growing and sophisticated society. Society has become a mass society (large cities and populations that we live in). These features began to emerge in the 19th century. Human beings used to spend time on rural regions or in small groups. Industrialization (massive amounts of factories: growing division of labor (if you look at the past, people were farmers but in modern society, people do specialized labor).
