Triangulation & Referencing Task
Worksheet
Theme: Society
Focus: Glamour and social envy
Book reference (author, year of
publish) e.g. “Jones, 2015”
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Relevant key points in summary
(use bullet points)
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Additional notes (e.g. for or
against)
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Berger,J. (1979)
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. Publicity make the spectator
dissatisfied with their present way of life and suggest that those who have
more are better
. Publicity are essential products
for day-dream , hence why it remains credible despite deferred realities
. Glamour cannot exist without
personal social envy which compounds with
his sense of powerlessness dissolves
into recurrent day-dreams
. The interminable
present of meaningless worki.g hours is balanced" by a dreamt future in
which imaginary activity replaces the passivity of the moment. I. h~s or her
day-dreams the passive worker becomes the active consumer. The working self
envies the consuming self.
“Publicity
both promises and threatens. It plays upon fear, often the fear of not being
desirable, of being unenviable. It suggests that you are inadequate as you
are, but it consoles you with the promise of a dream… But the highest value
of this civilization is the individual ego… one can only say this culture is mad.” - Berger
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Personal opinion : although
generally correct , Berger’s views can be extreme and , as influenced by his background and
political views
“Individual happiness is a
universal right … he lives in the contradiction of what he is and what he
would like to be”
If what he would like to be is a
step to pursuit his own individual happiness and being and their for is his right by Berger’s own
term, should he not be justified to be envious and to admire glamour ? Has Berger’s
phrase inadvertently condemn people for having ambitions and desire ?
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Gundle ,S.
Castelli, CT
(2006)
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.Glamour was not an intrinsic
allure or a mode of being of a given thing but a commodified aura bestowed upon a variety of
subjects.
. Glamour maintain the dominance
of the wealthy in the capitalist system
. Glamour requires in order to
exist , some sense of equality and citizenship ( but not necessary democracy
) => generate social envy
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Leaning toward support but not
obvious
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Postrel V (2013)
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. a “glamorous” object cannot
produce glamour unless it appeal to the audience’s personal aspiration and
unless the audience is willing to entertain the illusion
. Glamour does not always connect
to social envy , as many of the resentments and hostilities of true envy are
missing from glamour
.Glamour does not based only from
the lure of material pleasure, but that we can fit into the setting of which
they belong. However illusory it is , Glamour is emotionally authentic
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Generally opposed to Berger
.Personal opinion support this
idea of separating and identify the different sides of Berger’s social envy,
simplified as being either jealousy or admiration
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Hughes, C
(2007)
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-Although
envy is commonly understood as a vice (and as one of the seven deadly sins),
it is, of course, a site where concerns over inequalities and exploitation
are articulated
-Unpalatable
as it is , individual and personal envy will always occurred ,and there’s
nothing we can do about it
“The
upper class is despised, although their wealth and lifestyle is envied; the
working class ‘battler’ is glorified, although no one wants to be one; the
middle class is considered boring, but most belong to it” => a
justification for social system and the idea of glamour and social envy (
connect to the individual contradiction of what you are and what you want to
be )
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Gundle S ,
(2008)
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-Glamour is full of oxymoronic
qualities and fuel the illusion and deceive people of social realities, its
function ties in with the expansion of media and publicity
- Glamour simply cannot exist
without mass involvement . Glamorous personalities perform in front of an
audience that turn them into public curiosities and fantasies, and without
their envy/admiration, he/she cannot exist
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Generally support
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