ABSTRACT
In my view, the bulk of the quite considerable volume of work that has recently appeared on cultural industries represents a confluence of two trends in the social sciences. The first of these trends, principally affecting work on organizational studies, was a shift from more micro to more macro levels of analysis. The second, associated with the resurgence of interest in cultural studies, involved a change from more subjective to more objective conceptions of culture. Each development can be briefly described.
