Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth - Marilyn Waring
"The invisibility of unpaid work and the uni-dimensional growth paradigm. … Economics is all powerful and measures by a monetary (or numerical) value. … The pathology of the economic model - do you fight it; use it or create a new value system? Wrong tools lead to the adoption of the wrong policies and incorrect assessments of outcome."
Cash generation -v- productive capacity. The system does not respond to values it refuses to recognise - e.g. peace, kindness, caring, time. The Patriarchal nature of Economics denies the value of women.
I often find numerical values unhelpful. I am acutely aware how much the mark for my last work upset me - and I am upset, that I am upset about it! The feedback was all fair comment, but putting a lower numerical value on it than I am used to, has given me a knock. And it shouldn't - because it was fair! But this article does make the point that the patriarchal nature of economics expects continual growth (which is unrealistic) and only values a measurement system that constantly increases numerically. Whereas when value is measured in other ways, it reveals other worthy attributes.
No Measure for Culture? Value in the New Economy. S Bohm & C Land. Capital & Class, April 2008 University of Essex
"The field of artistic cultural production is 'the economic world reversed'. "
"The value of such artwork is autonomously determined by informal peer evaluation and pays off in terms of prestige rather than monetary economic terms. (Rehn)."
"Artistic labour is inherently linked to autonomy and self determination if it is to be a real and genuine expression of creative labour force. It makes a substantial contribution to general welfare of society, independent from formal market exchange where monetary price indicates commercial value." Shorthose & Strange (2004:17) Therefore, in my opinion operates on personally determined social values rather than capitalism's mainstream, monetaristic values.
Popular Culture and High Culture. An analysis of evaluation of taste. H Gans 2008
Two parts to Value Judgements. 1. Popular culture expresses the aesthetic and other wants of many (i.e. culture not commercial value), and, 2. All people have the right to the culture they prefer (i.e. not imposed top down). Cultural pluralism is ok.
Does art culture form an indicator of change in the lives and attitudes of the population? Shaped by imposition from above by profit-seeking organisations but also shaped by audience. Mass media/audience guessing game.
Can popular culture (practices, goods, and ideas of arts and leisure) be an aberration of commercial greed and public ignorance? Not necessarily. There are fewer differences and more similarities between high and low culture. Both are taste cultures: popular culture is chosen by people who lack economic and educational opportunities than those with high culture tastes.
There is a debate about the nature of "the good life". Culture/uncultured. Educated/uneducated. Experts/laity. Affluent/poor. Cultured elite/the market. Public/private.
Popular/high or low/high culture is not about high/low value but indicators in the socioeconomic hierarchy. High indicates cultured professionals in the upper middle class.
Linden said I should keep a running bibliography on all stuff I read and append it to my essays. This could end up longer than the essay! But she gave me the advice so I need to take it on board!
Look up Mark Johnson and Ethical Codes and negotiation next.
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