Alan swingewood biography

          Alan was born and grew up in Staffordshire..

          Alan Swingewood

          Related: mass society - popular culture

          Biography

          Alan Swingewood is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

          ALAN SWINGEWOOD lectures in sociology at the London School of Economics.

        1. Biography.
        2. Alan was born and grew up in Staffordshire.
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        4. A Short History Of Sociological Thought · The Novel and Revolution · Cultural Theory and The Problem Of Modernity · The Myth Of Mass.

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          The myth of mass culture (1977) - Alan Swingewood

          The myth of mass culture (1977) - Alan Swingewood [Amazon.com][FR][DE][UK]

          As Alan Swingewood points out in The Myth of Mass Culture (1977:5-8), the aristocratic theory of mass society is to be linked to the moral crisis caused by the weakening of traditional centers of authority such as family and religion.

          The society predicted by Ortega Y Gasset, T.S. Eliot and others would be dominated by philistine masses, without centers or hierarchies of moral or cultural authority. In such a society, art can only survive by cutting its links with the masses, by withdrawing as an asylum for threatened values.

          Throughout the 20th century, this type of theory has modulated on the opposition between disinterested, pure, autonomous art and commerci