SOC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Economic Mobility, Gilded Age
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Poorer people are likely to have singular or limited tastes. Today, the new elitists are cultural omnivores . Omnivorousness is part of a much broader trend in the behavior of our elite, one that embraces diversity. Barriers that were once a mainstay of elite cultural and educational institutions have been demolished. Elites seem more likely to confront snobbish exclusion than they are to embrace it. Back in the late 19th century, elites used to express their class by showing what they can afford, often buying many riches. These gilded age elites is highlighted by khan as the families who owned the manhattan opera house. They reinforced their high status by hiking up the prices to the opera house so the musical and theatrical culture that goes on within the building become less accessible to the outsiders. These gilded age elites also worked to keep their high culture from being tainted by the. This concept is known as high-culture low culture.
