CMST 2K03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Frankfurt School, Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Hegemony

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2K03
• Professor: Laurence Mussio

Document Summary

Multiple choice, true & false, short answers, fill in blanks (with word bank) Try to understand why we ended up in this position w these companies: marx. Economic exploitation we know we are being exploitd. Ideas of ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas. Class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Base vs. superstructure interdependent levels: base economy, relations to production, superstructure education, family, relgiion, politics, mass media. Friday, february 10, 2017: ex: ikea chair: Has exchange value / set in relation with other commodities on the market: wasko, political econ = concerned w the study of social relations, particularly the power relations / inequality relations, pol. Economy of comm. (pec) is different from media economics: media economics is descriptive, pec is critical. Week 3 : frankfurt school: horkheimer & adorno, the culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception.