Different Cultures

Question 1

How do Haralambos and Holborn define high culture

Answer 1

‘Cultural creations that have a particularly high status’

- aesthetically superior to other culture products

Question 2

High culture sociologists

Answer 2

Haralambos and Holborn

Question 3

High culture leisure activities

Answer 3

Classical music, opera, ballet, Shakespeare

Question 4

Folk culture

Answer 4

Traditional cultural products and activities that originate with ordinary people and are rooted in pre-industrial societies

Question 5

Folk culture activities

Answer 5

Morris dancing, folk singing, traditional storytelling

Question 6

Low culture

Answer 6

Lower ranked group in society

- the culture has little worth or value

Question 7

What is mass culture sometimes seen as?

Answer 7

A form of low culture

Question 8

Mass culture

Answer 8

Products of the mass media in modern capitalist societies

- tv, films, popular fiction, magazines

Question 9

Dwight McDonald

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Who criticised mass culture?

Answer 10

Dwight McDonald

Question 11

What is mass culture negatively said to do?

Answer 11

Can be seed as a corrupting influence on young people

- can encourage sexist attitudes and computer games can encourage violence