CMNS 220 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wield, Studio System, Cultural Capital
24 Oct 2017
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Connections between television, domestic space, and family structure. Television: common domestic technology for social life and entertainment. Took off in the 1950s (post war): availability of a large number of consumer goods: a means of advertisement in family homes: a consumptive way of life. 2 directions: outside: a machine brought into home & structures social place of home and everyday life, inside: as discourse and ideological practice. Integration into post-war culture: profound reorganization of social space: public realm began to shrink; fragmentation of communities, such fragmentation: allowed for home-centered family life and watching lot of television to grow. Post wwii: capital requires people to enlarge connections. Domestic space: became necessity demands by the capital. Emphasize nuclear family in domestic space: nuclear family: move from cities to suburbans. Central preoccupation in the new suburban culture: construction of a particular discursive space, community participation, dual goals: separation from and integration into the larger community.
