Critical Analysis Of Slamming Society
Critical Analysis of Slamming Society: Critical Theory and Situationism
Sociology 3000: Sociological Theory
Eric ofosu-Asare
This review is based on chapter 4 “Slamming Society: Critical Theory and Situationsim” in Mann’s textbook of “Understanding Society”. Within this chapter are the theorists Hegel, Freud, Adorno, Marcuse, and Lasch. Each main theorist’s argument will be presented and reviewed. Hegel’s theory is the journey of reason and argued on absolute idealism. Absolute idea is a theory that the essential nature of reality lies in the consciousness or reason and that ideas in human minds and God’s mind truly exist. Hegel was an absolute idealist inspired by Christianity, Hegel discovered that human history is based on logical, natural, human, and divine thus everything has a purpose. Freud argued that the human mind is divided into conscious, unconscious, and preconscious levels. Freud argued that the preconscious conveys human thoughts to consciousness by an act of attention. Unconscious thoughts are when human reasoning and feelings takes place and conscious attention is directed somewhere else. The conscious mind influences mental processing in humans that helps in contemplating normally in the memory. Adorno’s theory is the dialectic of enlightenment and argued on the culture industry. Adorno argued that the culture industry is an agency of anti-enlightenment, engaging in mass deception of buyers. Culture industry prevents buyers from being independent individuals and that was what the enlightenment promised the buyers. Adorno argued on popular music focuses on consumers’ emotions and music producers add pseudo-individuality to musical genres by producing the same songs over and over again distracting consumers. Capitalist industry does not sell the things consumers really need because there is a huge variety of consumer goods available in modern capitalism and culture industry
Sociology 3000: Sociological Theory
Eric ofosu-Asare
This review is based on chapter 4 “Slamming Society: Critical Theory and Situationsim” in Mann’s textbook of “Understanding Society”. Within this chapter are the theorists Hegel, Freud, Adorno, Marcuse, and Lasch. Each main theorist’s argument will be presented and reviewed. Hegel’s theory is the journey of reason and argued on absolute idealism. Absolute idea is a theory that the essential nature of reality lies in the consciousness or reason and that ideas in human minds and God’s mind truly exist. Hegel was an absolute idealist inspired by Christianity, Hegel discovered that human history is based on logical, natural, human, and divine thus everything has a purpose. Freud argued that the human mind is divided into conscious, unconscious, and preconscious levels. Freud argued that the preconscious conveys human thoughts to consciousness by an act of attention. Unconscious thoughts are when human reasoning and feelings takes place and conscious attention is directed somewhere else. The conscious mind influences mental processing in humans that helps in contemplating normally in the memory. Adorno’s theory is the dialectic of enlightenment and argued on the culture industry. Adorno argued that the culture industry is an agency of anti-enlightenment, engaging in mass deception of buyers. Culture industry prevents buyers from being independent individuals and that was what the enlightenment promised the buyers. Adorno argued on popular music focuses on consumers’ emotions and music producers add pseudo-individuality to musical genres by producing the same songs over and over again distracting consumers. Capitalist industry does not sell the things consumers really need because there is a huge variety of consumer goods available in modern capitalism and culture industry