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The document discusses the emergence and growth of consumer society in the late 19th and 20th centuries. As more leisure time and income became available, consumption became increasingly commercialized and dominated by mass production. After World War 2, the middle class expanded and consumption of goods like homes, cars, and appliances increased dramatically. Theorists like Bourdieu, Baudrillard, and Veblen analyzed how consumption became less about needs and more about social status, identity, and conspicuous displays of wealth in capitalist societies.
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Frankfurt school culture industry
- 1. Emergence of Consumer Society Late 19th century More leisure - Factories Acts - fewer hours, half day Saturday, some sections of population had increased income. Separation of work and leisure becoming more institutionalised. Organised sports. Music halls. Working Mens Clubs. Early - mid 20th century Technology and a reduction in quantity of work. Growth in white collar workers and professionals - better quality of work, more satisfying. Increase in domestic consumption - democratisation of consumption, all groups have more choice. Commercial domination. Emergence of youth and ethnic cultures
- 5. Where status depends on displaying differences, goods are used to identify a person, to demarcate social relationships. Jimmy Choo M & S Dolcis
- 11. Marx refers as commodity fetishism; “like gods”, commodities are our creation but appear to us as an alien force which rules our lives
- 14. ‘ The triumph of advertising in the culture industry’ …‘Is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them’ Adorno and Horkheimer
Editor's Notes
- role of advertising to promote consumerism, increasing use of design to sell new products (styling), 're-designs' of products, throw-away society