Types Of Culture Flashcards
1
Q
What is Mass Culture?
A
Commercially produced , involving cultural products produced as entertainment for sale to the mass of ordinary people
2
Q
What is High Culture?
A
cultural products seen to be of lasting artistic or literary value, which are particularly and approved by intellectual elites
3
Q
What does the Marxist: Bourdieu argue?
A
That low culture is only regarded as inferior when compared to high culture because
the dominant class has the power to impose its own ideas of ‘good taste’ on the rest of society
