Culture As Class
Herbert Gans states in his book Popular Culture and High Culture that the different classes of culture, are linked correspondingly to socio-economic and educational classes. For any given socio-economic class, there is a culture for that class. Hence the terms high and low culture and the manifestation of those terms as they appeal to their respective constituents.
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