Sociology of the Arts and Popular Culture
Prof. Gabe Ignatow
Review Sheet for
The 1st mid-term exam will cover the following readings:
- William Sewell jr., The Concept(s) of Culture (handout)
- Philip Smith, Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory? (Smith)
- Lynn Spillman, Introduction: Culture and Cultural Sociology (Spillman)
- Philip Smith, 37-57
- Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (Spillman)
- Habermas, Jurgen “On Systematically Distorted Communication”
- Philip Smith, 13-18
- Max Weber, “The Social Psychology of the World Religions” (handout)
- Max Weber, “The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism” (handout)
- Bryan Turner, Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses
You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms:
Karl Marx
George Lukacs
Antonio Gramsci
Horkheimer and Adorno
Jurgen Habermas
Max Weber
Bryan Turner
“Prison Notebooks”
“The Dialectic of Enlightenment”
“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”
Newtonian paradigm
Positivism
Hypothesis testing
Cause-and-effect relationshipgs
“linguistic turn”
“cognitive revolution”
Sociology of culture
Cultural sociology
Culture as “cultivation”
Folk culture
Culture as learned behavior
Culture as creativity/agency
Culture as systems of symbols and meanings
Culture as a life-system, way of life
Culture as meaning
Historical materialism
Communist revolution
False consciousness
“Opium of the people”
Commodification
Commodity Fetishism
Class consciousness
Hegemony
“Organic intellectuals”
Culture industry
“lowest common denominator”
Public sphere
Life-world
System-world
Communicative reason
Colonization of the life-world
Verstehen
Value-rationality
Purposive rationality
Salvation
Theodicy
Calvinism
Bryan Turner
Islamic asceticism
Sufi mystics
“Sultanism”