Cultures and Subcultures - studies

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Hall and Jefferson (1976)
Saw particular youth subculture styles as a form of resistance to dominant culture
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Strinati (1995)
Sees mass culture as popular culture involving cultural products produced for profit by mas-production industrial techniques
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Bourdieu (1971)
Argues that high culture is allegedly superior compared to mass or popular culture because the dominant class has the power to impose what is seen as good or bad taste
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MacDonald (1965)
Saw mass culture as trivial and inauthentic compared to folk culture, as it has no roots to it
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Flew (2002)
Suggests that the evolution of new media technologies like the internet and tv, mean that today's media-based culture industries operate in a global marketplace
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Ritzer (2013)
Uses the example of McDonalds, promotes a global standardized culture along with consumer lifestyles and culture associated with them
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