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| - | '''Culture industry''' is a term coined by [[Theodor Adorno]] (1903-1969) and [[Max Horkheimer]] (1895-1973), who argued that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods to manipulate the [[mass society|masses]] into passivity; the easy pleasures available through consumption of popular culture make people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances. Adorno and Horkheimer saw this mass-produced culture as a danger to the more difficult high arts. Culture industries may cultivate false needs; that is, needs created and satisfied by capitalism. True needs, in contrast, are freedom, creativity, or genuine [[happiness]]. [[Marcuse]] was the first to demarcate true needs from false needs.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] | + | '''Culture industry''' is a term coined by [[Theodor Adorno]] (1903-1969) and [[Max Horkheimer]] (1895-1973), who argued that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods to manipulate the [[mass society|masses]] into passivity; the easy pleasures available through consumption of popular culture make people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances. Adorno and Horkheimer saw this mass-produced culture as a danger to the more difficult high arts. Culture industries may cultivate false needs; that is, needs created and satisfied by capitalism. True needs, in contrast, are freedom, creativity, or genuine [[happiness]]. [[Marcuse]] was the first to demarcate true needs from [[false need]]s.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] |
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Culture industry is a term coined by Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), who argued that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods to manipulate the masses into passivity; the easy pleasures available through consumption of popular culture make people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances. Adorno and Horkheimer saw this mass-produced culture as a danger to the more difficult high arts. Culture industries may cultivate false needs; that is, needs created and satisfied by capitalism. True needs, in contrast, are freedom, creativity, or genuine happiness. Marcuse was the first to demarcate true needs from false needs.[1] [Apr 2007]
