Culture: Consumer Flashcards

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Culture:

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is the symbolic order through which individuals communicate and organize their collective lif

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What is the basis of culture?

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Symbolic Communication

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All human existence has cultural activity (symbolic communication) But :

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But the form and content vary over time and across social groups and societies

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Symbolic Communication varies according to :

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the nature of the organization of ‘social relations’ of production and reproduction

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At a macro level – culture reflects the nature of society

At a micro level-

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any given society will have particular cultural forms and institutions

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The cultural division between art and popular culture has

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  • REFLECTED certain class hierarchies and differences

- it has also REINFORCED them.

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“Cultural Capital”

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Social assets (e.g., formal education and knowledge, lifestyle characteristics) that provide access to, among other things, ‘art worlds’ (and often to social mobility)

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Cultural/symbolic production remains tied to the social organization: What is the central of cultural industries?

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Profit is at the centre of most cultural industries

Creativity/creative symbolic communication exist in a context shaped by capital

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to look at the ways in which capital and artistic expression are combined in the process of

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‘cultural commodification’

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Advertising is:

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As a key social institution

And in terms of symbolic importance in cultural life

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Media culture is intertwined with:

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consumer culture

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Cycle of Capitalism:

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Advertising-Consumption-Profit-Production- Start again

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Advertising makes the connection between:

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Mass production and mass cosnumption

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Use value to Symbolic value

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Use- self-explanatory
Value-symbolic value signifies the immaterial value attributed to an object or an idea and communicates its symbolic meaning. … A product’s symbolic value communicates meaning beyond its material aspects, representing, for example, status, trendy design, environmentally friendly, and so on.

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