Individual and Society in the Frankfurt School: Critical Reading on Reification of Persons and Commodification of Culture

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Economical, social and technological developments in the 20th century affected almost every segment of society and brought along radical changes in every field. This process which caught the attention of the intellectuals also took the attention of the Frankfurt school which determined the aim of establishment as “information and understanding of social life from” (Slater, 1998: 16). The Frankfurt school which aims to deal with social structure carried out studies on analysis of this structure, determining the missing and failing points and creating a social atmosphere in higher and better standards. In these studies conducted with critical theory, concern about individual and scoiety has always generated the main emphasis. This emphasis provided foundation for constituting and developing the culture industry in the school. This study, which aims the approach of the Frankfurt School toward individual and society, determined the conceptual framework with critical theory and culture industry and suggested perspectives of the school on individual and society particularly through criticism of culture industry. For this reason, literature review was used in this study.

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Critical theory , the Frankfurt School , culture industry , individual , society

Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences

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Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences