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Baudrillard's Consumption Symbolic Theory In Sociology Of Literature And Art Horizon

Posted on:2020-04-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R Y FanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330572997627Subject:Literature and art
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Baudrillard`s consume society and consumption symbolic theory is founded the rapidly expending modern society.Since world war ?,Marxist political economy have been a great progress in theoretical that more agree with the society reality.Facing the situation that variety of life and the lack of godliness,Frankfurt school`s cultural criticism,Henri Lefebvre`s aestheticization of everyday life theory,Gue-Debord`s landscape society theory,Baudrillard`s consumption symbolic theory are criticism about society at that time.Consumption symbolic theory is the key position to understand society.Society alienation is the thread that Baudrillard constructs about the change of relation between people and society,people`s behavior and thoughtless by expending connect between object and people,sign and people,the most important is consume culture effort distinctively in consume society in the final analysis.Chinese modern society development accelerate after Chinese economic reform,the consumption symbolic theory,aim to deconstruct consume society,will take active and positive role of inspriation.This paper studies Baudrillard's theory of consumption symbols from four aspects: theoretical source,formation process,operation mechanism and social significance.The first chapter traces the origin of Baudrillard's consumption symbol theory.Marx's theory of social production and the consumption criticism of Frankfurt School,Lefevere and Guidelbo are the source of consumption critical theory of consumption symbol theory.Saussure,Pierce and Roland Bart's symbol theory is the semiotic source of consumer symbol theory.The second chapter is the formation process of Baudrillard's consumption symbol theory.All symbolic objects constitute the value system of "symbol-matter",which plays an important role in the consumer society.Baudrillard believes that consumer behavior,the symbolic value of goods is the dominant consumer society.Symbolic value is the core concept of Baudrillard's general political economy and the criticism of symbolic political economy.The third chapter is the operation mechanism of consumption symbol theory in consumer society.The symbol fetishism under the control of the society has taken place a deeper level of alienation.The society forms a level dominated by symbols,and the virtual meaning of symbols deconstructs the traditional social values and cultures."one-way" people and rootless culture are the characteristics of the society dominated by consumer symbols.The fourth chapter is the social significance of consumption symbol theory.This chapter mainly examines the significance of consumption symbol theory to the construction of Chinese society and culture.The change of social and cultural trend of thought in China in the 1980 s and 1990 s,the literary commodity talk of market economy,the phenomenon of industrialization coincided with the process of symbolization of consumer society.Consumer culture occupies the mainstream of mass culture.Drawing on the essence of traditional culture and creating excellent symbols of cultural consumption by means of modern media,the development of high-quality cultural consumption is of great significance to the construction of Chinese modern society and culture.Symbols have a new value in the consumer society.The purpose of this paper is to explore Baudrillard`s theory of consumption symbols from the angle of sociology of literature and art.First of all,the exploration of consumer symbol theory itself,and finally its significance to contemporary society.The research value and innovation of this thesis are as follows: firstly,discussing the sociological value of literature and art of Baudrillard`s consumption symbol theory is a new explanation of its theory.Secondly,according to Baudrillard`s in-depth analysis of the society,this paper puts forward some suggestions on the construction of Chinese culture.The social value and cultural significance of Baudrillard`s consumption symbol theory have been further elucidated.The deficiency of this paper is that there is little elaboration on the political and economic field of consumption symbol theory,and the research is not comprehensive enough and lack of a certain theoretical depth.
Keywords/Search Tags:Baudrillard, consumption symbolic, alienation, fetishism, symbolic political economics, consume culture
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