Shaping Approaches - Roots of Shaping Approaches

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Karl Marx had some early ideas about shaping approaches of the sociology of arts.
Can you describe his stance?

He argued that capitalists have the desire and power to create stories that legitimimize their actions.

Can you explain what Marx's concept of commodity fetishism is and how it relates to the Frankfurt School?

  • It refers to the idea that people value things in monetary terms.
  • The Frankfurt School used this idea to explain the problem with popular arts.
    • They are valued for their exchange values.
    • Unlike authentic arts, which is valued for themselves.

Which opinion did a number of nineteenth century intellectuals, like the poet and literary critic, Matthew Arnold (1869), have about the shaping effects of fine arts on society?

  • They believed that the fine arts had uplifting civilizing effects on society.
  • Without it, society would fall into "anarchy."
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How did cultural highbrows in the 1930s and beyond stand in the debate of the shaping effects of mass culture?

  • They believed, whereas high art was beneficial, mass art was harmful.
    • It is parasitic, because it feeds off ideas generated by the fine arts, without returning a single new thought to them.
    • Mass culture replaces the fine arts and folk arts.
    • Mass audience spends too much time on popular art, leaving little time to spend on useful, educational and productive pursuits.

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