Frankfurt School
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- Created on: 26-04-14 14:41
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- What was the “Frankfurt School”? Use examples to discuss ways in which theorists associated with the Frankfurt School explained developments in methods of social control.
- •Institute
of Social Research, Frankfurt, Germany, established in 1923- Marxist orientated research centre
- •Core
theorists: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer
and Herbert Marcuse
- Institute was shut down when Hitler came to power and they moved to America to continue, and returned to Germany after the war.
- •Core
theorists: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer
and Herbert Marcuse
- Dialectic
of the Enlightenment
- •Argued that the Enlightenment produced an opposite outcome to that intended
- •Reason
and rationality has been suppressed, through the role of mass media, political
institutions, education systems, etc.
- Leads to suppression of dissent, when a group suppresses the individual thoughts and ideas of another opposing group
- Technology
and social control
- Frankfurt School saw the control of
technology as an important source of social control
- •Technology “"mode of organizing and perpetuating social relationships, a manifestation of prevalent thought and behaviour patterns, an instrument for control and domination“ •Marcuse (1941) ‘Some Social Implications of Modern Technology’
- •Particular focus on the use of technology in producing mass culture
- Frankfurt School saw the control of
technology as an important source of social control
- “Industrial”
production of culture
- •Standardisation (same components) •Pseudo-individualisation •(e.g. Popular music, Hollywood movies) stylistically different, same function •Rationalisation of promotion and distribution
- •Institute
of Social Research, Frankfurt, Germany, established in 1923- Marxist orientated research centre
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