SOCI 2040 Lecture 10: Week 10 Simmel and Modern Society.docx
21 Apr 2015
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Important of popular culture: prior simmels; argument, highbrow: who see high. Low brow: informal (t. v. , fashion: the analysis of paradox"s, two opposite tendencies found in the same phenomenon which appears contradictory but are combined together and co-exist. Simmel said we need to study the low brow and highbrow from culture. Sociology is based on highbrow (literature, books) Something that is the opposite but just work together: as fashion spreads it gradually goes to its doom. Fashion: embodies way characteristics of modern society. Nothing to do with to practice: reaction to the democratization of society. Simmel said modern social we then reaction to democratic back the society has rules: paradox # 1: differentiation leads to simmel. People who adopt different style that they show sameness. Very rare a person make their fashion. You don"t stand in fit in: paradox 2: new & old. New style comes out to the old is dead.
