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Types of Culture
- High culture
- Cultural characteristics enjoyed by
those with a higher status in socciety
- Examples include opera, ballet,
classical music and fine art
- Assoiciated with wealth
and so called higher
'intellect'
- Leavis argued it is an exclusive
group, not avaiable to 'outsiders'
- Bourdieu suggested it gives people
greater opportunities
- Bourdieu suggested it gives people
greater opportunities
- Cultural characteristics enjoyed by
those with a higher status in socciety
- Popular culture
- Every aspect of culture which is
not high culture
- Activities enjoyed by the
masses, 'mass culture'
- Activities enjoyed by the
masses, 'mass culture'
- Some use it as a negative thing. They argue it is mass
produced, by the mass media, for an unthinking mass
of people
- Others argue it gives a voice to ordinary
people and that it can bring everyone
together
- Others argue it gives a voice to ordinary
people and that it can bring everyone
together
- Some forms of high culture were once popular culture,
some forms of popular culture were once high culture
- Every aspect of culture which is
not high culture
- Subculture
- A smaller group within society.
- A minority part of a majority culture.
- A culture within a culture
- A minority part of a majority culture.
- Subcultures have their own distinct
norms and values
- A smaller group within society.
- Cultural diversity
- The way society contains a variety
of different cultures within
- Linked to subcultures
- Linked to subcultures
- Parekh points out some groups, who have
distinctive ways of life, can still fit in with
mainstream society
- Multiculturalism is the belief that diversity is a
good thing and to be celebrated
- Multiculturalism is the belief that diversity is a
good thing and to be celebrated
- The way society contains a variety
of different cultures within
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