culture industry

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Definition of culture industry in English Turkish dictionary

(Sosyoloji, Toplumbilim) Kültür endüstrisi

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Definition of culture industry in English English dictionary

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. Herbert Marcuse was the first to demarcate true needs from false needs

Hyphenation

cul·ture in·dus·try

Turkish pronunciation

kʌlçır îndıstri

Pronunciation

/ˈkəlʧər ˈəndəstrē/ /ˈkʌlʧɜr ˈɪndəstriː/