ABSTRACT
A number of theorists have focused on phenomena and processes within industrial culture. Weber’s (1922) reflections on economy certainly had a lasting effect on subsequent cultural theories. Therefore, some of his central aspects are summarised here again to serve as a starting point for the subsequent overviews of approaches that were concerned with internal perspectives of our industrial culture. With a different vantage point than Weber, Smuda (1992) and Kesting (1986) attended to city culture, drawing on the early 20th-century metropolis discourse. Baudrillard (1986) critically analysed the accelerating life in the globalising world, and similar criticism was brought forward by Postman (1991). Herman and Chomsky (1988) investigated the manufacturing of consent in our media-dominated culture via a quasi-empirical approach.
