SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -F. R. Leavis, Typography, Mass Communication

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

As the age of modernity began to demonstrate its full impact upon social life, arnold expressed the same concerns. He said to solve the problems people faced, they had to turn to culture. In the pursuit of sweetness and light, people could draw upon the best which has been thought and said in the world. this is the unmodified use of the word. Nietzsche: when the great think despises mankind, he despises its laziness: for it is on account of their laziness that men seem like factory products, things of no consequences and unworthy to be associated with or instructed. The man who does no wish to belong to mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. In opposition to the mendaciousness of millennia , he views culture as the solution to industrial society s problems.