What is style I wonder? What factors exactly lead society to the "realization" that a certain meme is cool. Be it words, clothes, methods of wearing clothes. Be it pants, hats, sun glasses etc. How does the mob determine what is good and bad of these styles?
I struggle to understand this sort of hivemind the crowd takes on, because almost everybody takes an instant liking to a certain trend and reproduces it, and launches it into sociological stardom. I hypothesize that it may be more of a hysteria type situation. Almost relating to the work of Dr. Zimbargo and the Stanford Prison Experiment. How a group will make crazy decisions, that when viewed from the outside, ie old people, looks and is understood to be rediculous, but whenever someone is on the bleeding edge of fashion or style, they understand these styles and trends and believe them to be popular. It would certainly be interesting to see some research done on this topic. To exactly pinpoint how and why a amorphous group makes seemingly unanimous decisions simutaneously without discussion or communication. They simply see it and ba-boom. A style is born.
Food for thought, my friends.
No comments:
Post a Comment