COMM 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Utopian Socialism, Herbert J. Gans, Classical Marxism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2P20
• Professor: Baxter Moore

Document Summary

Last week, intorduced four political or ideological positions on pop culture. In particular, the conservative elitists and radical elitists (compare and contrast) Believe that popular culture is holding back high culture, Conservative elitists, otherwise culture and civilization tradition. The best that has been thought and said in the world (matthew arnold, cited by. The case for an elite culture is tranditionally made on the basis of the moral seriousness and aestheric merit of a selected canon of texts. This is thought the embody the qualities of a particular national culture or to express universal artisitic and civilized values (peter brooker, a glossary of cultural theory, p. 86) Mass culture, on the other hand refers to the symbolic products used by the. Uncultured" majority. (herbert gans, popular culture and high culture, p. 10) Problem of distinguishing between culture and class. Class - isn"t just dependant on income, also dependant on lifestyle (including preferences to cultural products)