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Mass culture ✅ - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Downward pull of the group
        
        EXAMPLE: Gao Yuan's story in the Chinese Cultural Revolution lead by Mao Ze Dong in the 1900s. Students attacking teachers and people they termed 'revisionists' (who did not support Communism).
        
        When a group shares a sense of purpose, the levels of emotions such as excitement is heightened and people do not engage in nuanced thinking and deep analysis.
        
        Only individuals with detachment and calmness can think through things critically.
    - - Sense of belonging
        
        EXAMPLE: working with a group towards a tight deadline, being in a concert, attending a famous speaker's show
        
        "Social force" - an invisible force field that bings a group of people through shared sensations and creates intense feeling of connection
- - - - Post WWII marked the 'Golden Age of Television' which influenced family dynamics, consumerism, and societal values.
    - - Westernisation and Cultural hegemony
        
        EXAMPLE: Propagation of 'doomed race theory' in the 1900s to promote colonial legacy and further oppress the vulnerable members of the Indigenous community.
        
        Racism and Lengthened brutality
      - Imperialism
        
        EXAMPLE: 1929 Wall St Crash and the ensuing political and economic instability lead to the rise of the Nationalist Socialist Party in Germany (NAZIs) who wanted to colonise and expand their reign over Eastern lands
        
        Spawned theories of eugenics and the idea of a 'superior' race
        
        eugenics