According to german sociologist and philosopher theodor adorno, what effect does popular culture have on the public?

It encourages Passivity

Explanation:

According to the German philosopher, musicologist, sociologist, and psychologist Theodor Adorno, popular culture widely accepted by the middle class. The working-class people, as Adorno points out, do not have any form of resistance toward the popular culture in their society. The popular Culture term as given by Adorno towards the production that manipulates people into passivity.  

vertical merger is the term used for the joining of two or more firms involved in different stages of producing the same good or services.

explanation:

every society, in order to meet the needs of it's people, has to answer three basic questions:

- what should we produce?

- how should we produce it?

- for whom should we produce it?

this questions must be answered in order to, option b, aid in production decisions.

every country can't produce everything, no matter how rich their land is. it may be a matter of technology, resources or geographical conditions. so, these three questions must be resolved in order to get the most of the production of each land.

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