Quotes from John Storey

Whereas in the past a worker lived in his or her work, he or she now works in order to live outside his or her work.

The way in which ideology conceals the reality of subordination from those who are powerless: the subordinate classes do not see themselves as oppressed or exploited.

For Barthes, this would be a classic example of the operations of ideology, the attempt to make universal and legitimate what is in fact partial and particular; an attempt to pass off that which is cultural (i.e. humanly made) as something which is natural (i.e. just existing).

I]t invites us to think by not thinking for us; this is not to be dismissed as an absence of thought (or 'moral tone' for that matter), but as an absence full of potential presence, which the reader is invited to actively produce.

David Manning White] maintains that critics romanticize the past in order to castigate the present.

P]eople are not reducible to the commodities they consume.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.

Cultural choice and consumption become both the sign of class belonging and the mark of class difference.

It] was approached from a distance and gingerly, held at arm's length by outsiders who clearly lacked any sense of fondness for or participation in the forms they were studying.

There are . . . no masses; there are only ways of seeing [other] people as masses.