Different Cultures Flashcards
How do Haralambos and Holborn define high culture
‘Cultural creations that have a particularly high status’
- aesthetically superior to other culture products
High culture sociologists
Haralambos and Holborn
High culture leisure activities
Classical music, opera, ballet, Shakespeare
Folk culture
Traditional cultural products and activities that originate with ordinary people and are rooted in pre-industrial societies
Folk culture activities
Morris dancing, folk singing, traditional storytelling
Low culture
Lower ranked group in society
- the culture has little worth or value
What is mass culture sometimes seen as?
A form of low culture
Mass culture
Products of the mass media in modern capitalist societies
- tv, films, popular fiction, magazines
Dwight McDonald
Attacked mass culture for threatening to undermine high culture
- because it was so easy to understand and enjoy it stopped people from taking the trouble to try to understand worthwhile culture
Who criticised mass culture?
Dwight McDonald
What is mass culture negatively said to do?
Can be seed as a corrupting influence on young people
- can encourage sexist attitudes and computer games can encourage violence
