Mass culture. cultural spaces: Hadrians wall.
Cultural products, rituals, and commodities don’t just come from shopping malls.
We experience culture in many different spaces and through different events. Sports stadiums, street festivals, museums, national holidays, and rites of passage like weddings, are all spaces where we experience and consume culture. examine how it is both a cultural and capitalist product.
What can we learn about culture, experience, and capitalism when we look closely at these spaces or events? To answer this question you need to consider how these spaces or events look, what they are for, and what people actually do there.
You might also want to think about who is included or excluded. You also need to consider how these places are affected by consumerism and capitalism.
These are spaces of community and culture but also business and industry. Remember you are being asked to use course material, so you also need to think about theories like atomization, folk culture versus mass culture, and industrialization.
These ideas laid out above and the ones that are present in the files posted to be applied to one specific cultural monument. examine how it is both a cultural and capitalist product.
The monument or cultural space is Hadrian’s wall. The emphasis should be to use the files posted however use any other source that is relevant or helpful.
The discipline as other but keep me informed about the assigned writer’s expertise. Think sociology would be appropriate.
