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Culture, Class, and Critical Theory: Between Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Autor David Gartman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 oct 2012
Culture, Class, and Critical Theory develops a theory of culture that explains how ideas create and legitimate class inequalities in modern society. This theory is developed through a critique and comparison of the powerful ideas on culture offered by Pierre Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School thinkers, especially Theodor Adorno. These ideas are illuminated and criticized through the development of two empirical cases on which Gartman has published extensively, automobile design and architecture. Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School postulate opposite theories of the cultural legitimation of class inequalities. Bourdieu argues that the culture of modern society is a class culture, a ranked diversity of beliefs and tastes corresponding to different classes. The cultural beliefs and practices of the dominant class are arbitrarily defined as superior, thus legitimating its greater share of social resources. By contrast, the thinkers of the Frankfurt School conceive of modern culture as a mass culture, a leveled homogeneity in which the ideas and tastes shared by all classes disguises real class inequalities. This creates the illusion of an egalitarian democracy that prevents inequalities from being contested.
Through an empirical assessment of the theories against the cases, Gartman reveals that both are correct, but for different parts of modern culture. These parts combine to provide a strong legitimation of class inequalities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415524209
ISBN-10: 0415524202
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Modern Culture as Mass Unity or Ranked Diversity  2. Reification of Consumer Products: A General History Illustrated by the American Automobile  3. Culture as Class Symbolization or Mass Reification? A Critique of Bourdieu’s Distinction  4. Three Ages of the Automobile: The Cultural Logics of the Car  5. Why Modern Architecture Emerged in Europe, Not America: The New Class and the Aesthetics of Technocracy  6. Bourdieu’s Theory of Cultural Change: Explication, Application, Critique  7. Bourdieu and Adorno: Converging Theories of Culture and Inequality

Descriere

This volume focuses on developing a theory of culture that reveals how ideas create and legitimize social inequality, using empirical case studies ranging from automobile design to architecture to compare and critique two of the most influential theories of culture in contemporary sociology. It questions to what extent our culture reflects class inequality, and to what extent our culture masks those inequalities through the sameness of unified mass culture.