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Article: Culture, Low and High
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- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Culture, Low and High
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Discussions and analyses of culture are common in the social sciences. Sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists are often interested in similarities and differences between groups and societies. An important component of social scientific research on culture revolves around the question of stratification. In other words, are some cultures more valued than others?
According to sociologist Herbert Gans, cultures can be divided according to various tastes. In his article
American Popular Culture and High Culture in a Changing Class Structure
(1986), Gans argues that
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taste cultures
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are the
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array of arts, and forms ...
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