Viewing mass-culture consumers as passive dupes is an unsocialist position

Evidence

In this retrospective assessment of Hoggart’s contribution to the field, Stuart notes how very much of Cultural Studies’ later critique of simplistic Marxism (especially the dismissal of working-class cultures as being marred by “false consciousness”) is rooted in Hoggart’s insistence that such cultures, however flawed, have their own internal logics. As he points out, this means that the cultural industries cannot be assumed to have automatic effects—as their audiences bring cultures and values of their own to the moment of consumption. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 122 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Treating working people as cultural dopes is an unsocialist perspective; Audiences bring their own cultures to consumption, so media effects are never automatic — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 122; State-society interpenetration replaced deliberation with managed publicity aimed at passive consumers — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2376 (+2 more)

Related

• Audiences bring their own cultures to consumption, so media effects are never automatic (similarity 0.89)
• Viewing mass-culture audiences as passive dupes is unsocialist. (similarity 0.88)
• Calling mass audiences cultural dopes is itself an unsocialist view. (similarity 0.84)
• Television production is not a closed system but draws from wider society (similarity 0.83)
• Audiences’ own cultures block mass media from having automatic effects (similarity 0.80)
• Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy founded Cultural Studies. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Audiences bring their own cultures to consumption, so media effects are never automatic #corroborates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 122