Category: English Blog

Highbrow cultural tastes among high-status Americans have shifted from exclusive “snobbish” preferences to more inclusive “omnivorous” ones. They support this claim through empirical analysis of survey data from 1982 and 1992 demonstrating that high-status individuals increasingly appreciate a wider array of cultural forms, including both highbrow and lowbrow genres. Key Concepts Highbrow vs. Lowbrow Taste: […]

All artistic work, like all human activity, involves the joint activity of a number, often a large number of people. Through their cooperation, the art work we eventually see or hear comes to be and continues to be. The work always shows signs of that cooperation. Art Worlds challenges the tenets of traditional aesthetics-the artist […]

Cultural products and producers are located within “a space of positions and position-takings” (30) that constitute a set of objective relations.’ Relationality: cultural production and its products are situated and constituted in terms of a number of processes and social realities. we can’t understand the work of art purely in reference to itself. Rather, it […]

Those with the greatest cultural capital (non-economic social assets, such as education and others that allow social mobility in broader terms than mere income) are those who determine what constitutes good taste in a society. Those with less general capital accept this taste and accept the difference between high and low culture (classical and popular) […]