SOC 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Money Changes Everything, Digital Revolution, Frankfurt School
Document Summary
* each year brings an increase in the size of contribution to popular culture. * the production of objects have been treated as real economy whereas the production of lms has been treated as a marginal economic practice. Money changes everything: the pitfalls of thinking about production. * more people will have heard about forms of popular culture (ex. movies) than actually participated in them. * box of ce sales inform audiences about the nancial importance of cultural objects that they might not have seen but have been given attention from the other public. * artist"s success is usually measured by how many albums they sell instead of their talent; however, it is said that the more nancially successful something is, the less artistically successful it is (ex. bands selling out ) * even what is considered as high art was somehow involved in money.
